VV Balakrishna
Last Updated : 17 Apr 2012 10:41:50 AM IST
HYDERABAD: A governmental team comprising ministers and officials will visit Mumbai soon to sign an agreement with the Maharashtra government on the Pranahita-Chevella major lift irrigation project. As both chief ministers were busy with Assembly sessions the agreement could not be signed so far, government sources said. “We will proceed to Maharashtra to sign the papers soon,” major irrigation minister Peddi Sudarshan Reddy has said.
The agreement will make things easier for Andhra Pradesh to get clearances from the central government, The Centre has accorded four of the eight clearances required for the project. According to sources, the state needs clearances from as many as 15 departments but could get clearances only from seven departments so far. Once all the clearances are obtained, the Centre may confer the national project status on Pranahita-Chevella.
The state government had prevailed upon the Maharashtra government to constitute an inter-state board for the project. Though the state cabinet hailed chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy in January this year for his efforts to convince his Maharashtra counterpart, nothing could be put in black and white so far.
This was attributed to the budget session of the Assembly in both the states. Sources said Centre had already agreed to bear 57 per cent cost of the project. If the national project status is conferred, the Centre will bear 90 per cent of the cost.
While Pranahita-Chevella is in Telangana, Polavaram, another irrigation project, is in Andhra region. It is also in an advanced stage of getting clearances and the state is trying to get the national project status for both projects simultaneously. If Polavaram gets the national project status first, it will trigger widespread protests in Telangana. That is the reason why the government is trying its best to see that both the projects are declared as national projects at one go.
Water scenario:
The state’s share of dependable flows at 75 per cent dependability from the river systems is estimated as 2769 TMC (Thousand Million Cubic Feet). This breaks up into 1480 TMC from the Godavari River system, 811 TMC (800 TMC + 11 TMC regeneration) from the Krishna, 98 TMC from the Pennar and the rest from other rivers.
The entire dependable water share of Krishna is fully harnessed through the construction of several reservoirs and barrages. The yield from Godavari has been utilised to an extent of 742.2 tmc only and the surplus flow aggregating to an average of 3000 tmc is flowing to the sea as unutilised.
The major irrigation projects SripadaSagar YellamPally, Dr BR Ambedkar Pranahita-Chevella Sujala Sravanthi, J Chokka Rao Devadula Lift Irrigation Scheme, Indira Sagar Polavaram and PV Narsimha Rao Kanthanpally Sujala Sravanti are being taken up to harness the Godavari water for Irrigation, drinking and power generation needs.
Dr BR Ambedkar Pranahita-Chevella
Sujala Sravanti Project
* To divert 160 tmcft of water by building a barrage across Pranahita, a major tributary to the Godavari, in Adilabad district
* To irrigate an ayacut of 16.40 lakh acres in Adilabad, Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Medak, Warangal, Ranga Reddy, Nalgonda districts
* To draw 20 tmcft water from Godavari at Sripada Yellampally reservoir
* To cost Rs 40,300 crore
* In-principle clearance received on April 16, 2010
* Project works divided into 7 links, 28 packages
* Agreements concluded for all 28 packages
* Target year for completion is 2018-19
Irrigation potential
* Adilabad: 1,56,500 acres, 306 villages, 19 mandals
* Karimnagar: 1,71,449 acres, 157 villages, 10 mandals
* Nizamabad: 3,04,500 acres, 275 villages, 19 mandals
* Medak: 5,19,152 acres, 539 villages, 22 mandals
* Nalgonda: 2,29,832 acres, 171 villages, 11 mandals
* Ranga Reddy: 2,46,704 acres, 283 villages, 14 mandals
* Warangal: 11,863 acres, 11 villages, 2 mandals.
Drinking water
* 10 tmcft to villages en route from Adilabad to Chevella
* 30 tmcft for Hyderabad
Industrial use
* 16 tmcft
Major projects on Godavari
* SripadaSagar, YellamPally
* Dr BR Ambedkar Pranahita-Chevella Sujala Sravanti
* J Chokka Rao Lift Irrigation Scheme, Devadula
* PV Narasimha Rao Sujala Sravanti, Kantanapally
* Indira Sagar, Polavaram
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