Kaleshwaram project initiates wet run at Mallannasagar

The Telangana is witness to however a further essential step towards the goal of building the Point out agriculture productive by harnessing the Godavari waters with the Kaleshwaram Elevate Irrigation Plan.

The damp operate commenced currently with the release of water from Komuravelli Mallannasagar pump house, a person of the most critical phases in the mega KLIP.

The Godavari water released from Ranganayaka Sagar reached the Mallannasagar surge pool. Mallannasagar is the biggest manmade reservoir in KLIP with a capacity to retail outlet 50 TMC water.

Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Minimal (MEIL) has built both Mallannasagar and Kondapochamma reservoirs.

In a reduced-vital celebration, the officials started a damp operate on Tuesday evening. As element of this work out, water was released by charging up the equipment.

Point out Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has been supervising the progress of the mega project noticed to participate in a major role in growing the acreage less than agriculture.

As per the system, right after filling the Mallannasagar reservoir, the water would be released to Kondapochamma reservoir. The will work are on for the 50TMC capacity Mallannasagar will work.

The vast majority of ayacut of KLIP is less than Mallannasagar reservoir. The Baswapur reservoir, which is significantly away, will also get water from this reservoir. The drought-susceptible Nalgonda district will get the Godavari water from this broad reservoir. Soon after that, the water pumped up reaches to Singur reservoir from this Mallannasagar reservoir.

The Mallannasagar pump house has eight equipment with 43 megawatts capacity. The water discharge capacity is 248.500 cumecs. Above 1,twenty five,000 lakh acres of ayacut in Siddipet and neighbouring districts will get the irrigation water from Mallannasagar. All the tanks on the way to Kondapochamma also will be stuffed with the Godavari water.

MEIL is environment up pump houses with sixty three equipment with a total capacity of 3767 megawatts. Out of these, 49 equipment are constantly pumping the water. The erection of other devises is on at a brisk rate.

The business built the world’s biggest underground Gayatri pump house with eight equipment with 139 megawatts capacity.