The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation project faced a huge backlash as YSR Telangana Party (YSRTP) president YS Sharmila took her fight against the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation project in the southern state to Delhi on Tuesday.
What is Kaleshwaram Project? See details
The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation project faced a huge backlash as YSR Telangana Party (YSRTP) president YS Sharmila took her fight against the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation project in the southern state to Delhi on Tuesday.
He called it “India’s biggest irrigation scam”, which looted Rs 1.2 lakh crore.
During the protest, the President was detained by the Delhi Police for marching towards Parliament from Jantar Mantar along with others.
The group intended to create a ruckus against the Telangana KCR government over the alleged scam.
Kaleshwaram Project: Details and Description
- The project is being constructed on the Godavari river at Kaleshwaram village in Jayashankar Bhupalpally district.
- It is known to be the largest multi-stage lift irrigation project in the world.
- Covering a distance of 500 km in 13 districts of Telangana.
- The objective of the project is to produce 240 TMC of water for irrigation, drinking and industrial uses.
- With 20 reservoirs and seven links, the project configures each link to convey water from a source to a storage system and/or distribution network system to irrigate the ayacut.
- As per present data, the project is being constructed at a cost of Rs 80,000 crore.
Kaleshwaram Project: History
- In 2019, the Kaleshwaram project was inaugurated.
- It is an offshoot of Dr BR Ambedkar Pranahita Chevella Sujala Sravanthi project launched in 2005 by the then Chief Minister of United Andhra Pradesh, YS Rajasekhara Reddy, father of YS Sharmila.
- In 2014, after the fork, it became impossible to maintain the original design.
- Maharashtra opposed the full reservoir level (FRL) project near Tummidi Hetti, across the Pranahita river, as large areas were being submerged in its state.
- Later in 2016, Telangana and Maharashtra reached an agreement.
- After taking into account these changes and suggestions from CWC, the original project was redesigned and divided into Dr BR Ambedkar Pranahita project and Kaleshwaram project.
- The first is in Adilabad district, while the second is in Jayashankar Bhupalpally district.
Kaleshwaram Project: Key Features
- For lift irrigation project, its pumps are its most important features.
- This type of irrigation differs from others in that the water is not transported by natural gravity, but must be raised using pumps.
- The Kaleshwaram project is said to have the world’s largest underground pumping station, situated 470 feet below the earth’s surface.
- The station has seven ‘Bahubali’ engines that can pump 2,376 metric tonnes of water.
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