Intro- Inter-state meet in Hyderabad on Jan 21 to discuss land acquisition in Maharashtra
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Timeline:
First inter-state agreement signed - 1975
CWC clearance in-principle - April, 2010.
DPR Submitted to CWC - October, 2010
Green signals so far: Central Soil Material Research Station (CSMRS), Construction Machinery Consultancy (CMC) and Central Ground Water Board (CGWB).
Clearance awaited: Forest and environment depts ( in Maharashtra area), Planning, cost and utility
Project cost: `40,300 crore
USP: Irrigation to 16.4 lakh acres in Telangana region, drinking water to Hyderabad
by VV Balakrishna
Hyderabad: A major hurdle have been cleared for the Pranahita-Chevella irrigation project with the Central Water Commission (CWC) giving final hydrological clearance for it on Monday.
The CWC, which gave the hydrological clearance in-principle to the project in April, 2010, informed the state government about the final go-ahead.
"We got the CWC clearance. However, two more- from environment and forest departments- are awaited," major irrigation minister Peddi Sudarshan Reddy told Express on Monday.
A green signal was given by the Andhra Pradesh forest department pertaining to land. However, the same for the area in Maharashtra is still pending.
The state government will acquire some land in Maharashtra for the project which will be discussed at an inter-state meeting of engineers-in-chief on January 21 in Hyderabad. The state government is eyeing a major breakthrough at the meeting.
" With the project coming up, as many as 1,852 acres of land in Maharashtra will be submerged. The Maharashtra government is positive over the land acquisition and we hope to get the required clearances soon," the minister said.
Andhra Pradesh government signed the first inter-state agreement with Maharashtra on October 6, 1975 on three projects including the Pranahita-Chevella. The then chief ministers Jalagam Vengala Rao and SB Chavan were the signatories.
Recently, another agreement was signed between Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and his Maharashtra counterpart Prithviraj Chavan on May 5, 2012 in New Delhi. As per the pact, both the states constituted an Inter-state Board, a Standing Committee and a Co-ordination Committee for effective monitoring of the lift irrigation project.
The `40,300-crore project is intended to divert 160 tmcft of water by constructing a barrage across Pranahita river, a major tributary of Godavari. It will ensure irrigation for 16.4 lakh acres of farm land in Adilabad, Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Medak, Warangal, Rangareddy, and Nalgonda districts in Telangana region. Further, the project will utilise 20 tmcft of water from Godavari at Yellampally project.The project is expected to be completed by 2018.
Box-1
48 pc of Cost under
PM's Package Likely
Hyderabad: The state government is expecting that minimum 20 to 48 per cent of the poject cost will be coverred under the Prime Minister's package. Earlier, Bhima (Rajiv) lift irrigation scheme got 90 per cent funding from Prime Minister's package, said irrigation minister P Sudarshan Reddy. Recently irrigation officials held talks with the Union water ministry to grant a national project status for Pranahita-Chevella. In that case, the Centre will bear 90 percent of the poject cost.
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