Palamuru lift project to be linked to Kalwakurthy, Jurala

Hyderabad: The Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS) will be linked with Kalwakurthy Lift Irrigation Scheme and Jurala project to provide water for irrigation to every acre in erstwhile Mahbubnagar district.
Finance minister T Harish Rao, replying during question hour in the assembly on Friday, said chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s decision to link the projects would also help in extending drinking water to several municipalities and villages under Jurala.The PRLIS will provide water to 12.30 lakh acres in 19 constituencies of erstwhile Mahabubnagar and Rangareddy districts. It will also serve the drinking water needs of villages and industries by lifting two TMC per day for 60 days during flood season from the foreshores of Srisailam reservoir between Yellur village and KP Laxmidevipally. It is going to be a five-stage pumping followed by gravity before it reaches the parched lands.
Works on the project are going on at a brisk pace and targets have been set to complete the works at Uddandapur by December 2021. Earlier, TRS MLAs, mainly from the assembly constituencies located in and around erstwhile Mahbubnagar district, urged the government to complete PRLIS on a war footing on the lines of Kaleshwaram project.
“Mahbubnagar district had earlier become unpopular for people migrating from the district to other places. The CM has redesigned projects to irrigate every acre and transform the district into a green area,” said Harish Rao.
The previous governments could not complete the projects but the TRS government has almost completed Kalwakurthy, Nettempadu, Koilsagar and Bhima irrigation projects and gave water to the farmers.