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Another milestone in KLI project: Kondapochamma Sagar gets water

Hyderabad: In yet another milestone in Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project, the Markook pumphouse was inaugurated and released to Kondapochamma Sagar project by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday. The CM took part in special rituals at Markook village in Siddipet district along with seer Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamy prior to the inauguration.

He also offered prayers at a local temple.

Kondapochamma is the 10th stage project, the last and vital project, in Kaleshwaram project. It was taken up at an estimated cost of Rs 3,500 crore with a storage capacity of 15 tmcft. It will irrigate 2.85 lakh acres in Siddipet, Sangareddy, Medak, Yadadri-Bhuvanagiri and Medchal-Malkajgiri districts. Godavari water will flow to Kondapochamma Sagar through Mid Manair, Anantagiri and Ranganayaka Sagar reservoirs, which have already been completed and inaugurated in the last one year.

From Kondapochamma Sagar, plans have been prepared to lift water to Keshavapur in Shamirpet mandal to provide drinking water to Greater Hyderabad in near future. Mega Engineering and Infrastructure Limited (MEIL) has constructed the Kondapochamma Sagar reservoir and the pumphouse with six machines each with 27 megawatts capacity. With this, 3,767 MW pumping capacity has been operationalised.

The government has taken up the mega Kaleshwaram project at Rs 1 lakh crore by dividing it into different packages to lift water from the Godavari. Over 36 lakh acres will be irrigated under this project in 22 districts once it is completed. The first phase (line 1) of KLIP was inaugurated on June 19, 2019, by the CM at Medigadda in the erstwhile Karimnagar district. Later, reservoirs and pumphouses were added under various packages from time to time.

Recently, water was released to Ranganayaka Sagar of package-11, is the second largest pumphouse in the world after the Gayathri pumphouse.

The government recently decided to increase the pumping capacity of KLIP by one more tmcft a day. As part of this, a total of 15 new machines, are being established in Lakshmi, Saraswathi and Parvathi pumphouses of link 1 component.

The government is also in the process of finalising works related to draw additional water from Mid Manair to Mallannasagar, sources added.

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