CM Directs Uttam to Discuss All Irrigation Projects Threadbare With NDSA Officials
5 months ago

CM Directs Uttam to Discuss All Irrigation Projects Threadbare With NDSA Officials

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Highlighting the BRS government's haphazard construction of irrigation projects, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Sunday asked the irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy and senior officials from the department to discuss the repairs and inspections of irrigation projects with officials of National Dam Safety Authority in Delhi on Monday. The Chief Minister on Sunday conducted a review meeting with Uttam Kumar Reddy and irrigation officials, including Secretary Rahul Bojja and advisor Adityanath Das on Medigatta and other projects. Uttam Kumar Reddy and other officials had a meeting with NDSA officials in Delhi on Saturday, during which they discussed several issues pertaining to irrigation projects in the state. Uttam Kumar Reddy pointed out that the government has an annual financial burden to the tune of Rs 10,000 crore on power consumption for operating the pumps in several irrigation projects and the government also spends another Rs 10,000 crore on interest for the loans that have been availed.

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NDSA likely to submit final report on Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme by December end
1 week, 1 day ago

NDSA likely to submit final report on Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme by December end

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: The National Dam Safety Authority is likely to submit its final report on the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme by December end, excluding the aspect of conducting geo-technical tests. The NDSA’s report holds significant importance for the state government as it appears determined to take decisions regarding the future of KLIS on expert opinion. In November, the NDSA informed the …

Addl. irrigation potential of 30L acres to be created under existing projects in 5 years: Uttam
1 week, 2 days ago

Addl. irrigation potential of 30L acres to be created under existing projects in 5 years: Uttam

The Hindu  

Minister for Irrigation and Civil Supplies N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has stated that the government is resolved to create irrigation potential to an additional 30 lakh acres with the modernisation of projects such as Nizamsagar and Sriramsagar in the next five years. Lifeline for farmers The officials informed the Minister that siltation had reduced the water storage capacity of Sriramsagar …

Andhra Pradesh: Minister Chairs NTR DRC Meet, Focuses on Public Issues
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Andhra Pradesh: Minister Chairs NTR DRC Meet, Focuses on Public Issues

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: NTR district in-charge minister and health minister Y. Satya Kumar Yadav said the District Review Committee meeting discussed several public issues and reiterated the NDA alliance state government’s priority to improve the living standards of people in the district. Satya Kumar Yadav chaired the DRC meeting at the Farmers' Training Centre Hall, located on the premises of the irrigation …

Create separate website for Polavaram irrigation project: Minister Nimmala Rama Naidu
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Create separate website for Polavaram irrigation project: Minister Nimmala Rama Naidu

New Indian Express  

VIJAYAWADA: Minister for Water Resources Nimmala Rama Naidu has advised officials to create a separate website for the Polavaram Irrigation Project, and upload the progress of works daily. Reviewing the progress of the project works at a meeting with senior irrigation officials on Wednesday, he said Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu will visit the Polavaram project site in the first …

Telangana irrigation minister urges Centre to waive loans taken for irrigation projects
3 months ago

Telangana irrigation minister urges Centre to waive loans taken for irrigation projects

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy has called on the Union government to take steps to persuade central financial institutions to reduce or entirely waive the interest on loans taken by the previous government for irrigation projects in the state. He appealed to Union Jal Shakti Minister Patil to not only consider waiving or reducing the interest on past …

Pursue NDSA To Expedite Kaleshwaram Barrage Report: Uttam to Officials
3 months, 1 week ago

Pursue NDSA To Expedite Kaleshwaram Barrage Report: Uttam to Officials

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: With the monsoon season half gone and plans for repairs of the Kaleshwaram project barrages yet to take a final shape, irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Wednesday directed the department officials to pursue with the National Dam Safety Authority on the issue of receiving a final report on the way forward on the barrages. The minister, who …

Ex-minister blames Andhra CM Naidu for Polavaram Irrigation Project setbacks
4 months ago

Ex-minister blames Andhra CM Naidu for Polavaram Irrigation Project setbacks

New Indian Express  

RAJAMAHENDRAVARAM: Former minister and YSRC leader Chelluboyina Srinivasa Venugopala Krishna expressed concern over the mismanagement of the Polavaram Irrigation Project under the leadership of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, and attributed the setbacks and financial loss incurred by the project to Naidu’s hasty and ill-conceived decisions. Speaking to the media in Rajamahendravaram on Monday, Chelluboyina alleged that Naidu resorted to …

KTR, BRS party workers threaten to forcibly release Godavari water
4 months, 3 weeks ago

KTR, BRS party workers threaten to forcibly release Godavari water

Hindustan Times  

Bharat Rashtra Samithi working president and former Telangana minister KT Rama Rao on Friday threatened that his party, along with 50,000 farmers would storm the Lakshmi pump house of Kaleshwaram project at Medigadda and forcibly start the pumps to release Godavari water to the command area, if the state government does not act on it by August 2. He sought …

Decision on Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme after NDSA-Uttam meeting
5 months ago

Decision on Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme after NDSA-Uttam meeting

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy will meet officials of National Dam Safety Authority in Delhi on Saturday and discuss repairs to the damaged Medigaddda, Annaram and Sundilla barrages, all critical components of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme. Meanwhile, in an informal chat with reporters here on Wednesday, Uttam said that the Irrigation department would prepare a route map …

NDSA Awaits Telangana Report on KLIS Flood Protection
5 months, 1 week ago

NDSA Awaits Telangana Report on KLIS Flood Protection

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The National Dam Safety Authority is yet to receive any report from the state irrigation department on implementation of the interim monsoon flood protection measures that it had suggested for the safety of the Kaleshwaram project barrages. Unless this report is submitted by the state government, there is little that the NDSA can do to finalise its own report …

Irrigation sector regressed by 20 years in YSRC regime: Nimmala Ramanaidu
5 months, 1 week ago

Irrigation sector regressed by 20 years in YSRC regime: Nimmala Ramanaidu

New Indian Express  

VIJAYAWADA: Minister for Water Resources Development Nimmala Ramanaidu said during the previous YSRC regime, the irrigation sector regressed by 20 years, and several projects, including Polavaram suffered serious damage. Participating in irrigation expert and Padma Bhushan recipient KL Rao’s 122nd birth anniversary celebrations in Vijayawada on Monday, he said under the previous regime, both irrigation and drinking water resources had …

Irrigation Minister Uttam warns of further action post Medigadda judicial report
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Irrigation Minister Uttam warns of further action post Medigadda judicial report

New Indian Express  

BHUPALPALLY: Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Friday said that the government would take further action against officials concerned for the sinking of piers of Medigadda after the judicial commission submits its report. Uttam said that making optimum use of resources to get maximum new ayacut under irrigation is the motto of the Congress government. “Whether old or new …

CPI(M) Urges CM Revanth Reddy for White Paper on Water Crisis
8 months, 1 week ago

CPI(M) Urges CM Revanth Reddy for White Paper on Water Crisis

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: A team of the Communist Party of India that visited the Medigadda barrage has written to Chief Miniter A. Revanth Reddy seeking a White Paper on the water situation in the state’s reservoirs and alternative arrangements to save farmers' crops. They sought action on those responsible for the damage to the barrage after the judicial inquiry, and said this …

Telangana irrigation officials explain flaws in Sundilla design to NDSA team
9 months ago

Telangana irrigation officials explain flaws in Sundilla design to NDSA team

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: The National Dam Safety Authority expert committee held detailed discussions with irrigation officials on the first day of its second visit to the state here on Wednesday. On Wednesday, the irrigation officials reportedly informed the team that certain aspects were ignored while designing the Sundilla barrage. The officials are said to have informed the expert committee that the construction …

KLIS officials’ failure to give correct info irks NDSA
9 months, 1 week ago

KLIS officials’ failure to give correct info irks NDSA

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: National Dam Safety Authority Expert Committee chairman Chandrasekhar Iyer reportedly critcised the engineers and officials of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme for not providing accurate details about the project. The six-member expert committee first met Telangana Irrigation Secretary Rahul Bojja and later had a one-on-one meeting with engineers-in-chief. The state officials are learnt to have come up with excuses …

NDSA Constitutes Committee for Inspection of Kaleshwaram Barrages
9 months, 2 weeks ago

NDSA Constitutes Committee for Inspection of Kaleshwaram Barrages

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The design aspects of the three main barrages of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme at Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla — for which ex-chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao took credit — will be under the close scrutiny of a six-member National Dam Safety Authority team. The state government, which had sought an NDSA inquiry, previously said it would take action …

Uttam Kumar Reddy ridicules BRS for suggestion on repairing Medigadda Barrage, terms ‘Chalo Medigadda’ a political gimmick
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Uttam Kumar Reddy ridicules BRS for suggestion on repairing Medigadda Barrage, terms ‘Chalo Medigadda’ a political gimmick

The Hindu  

Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy said that the Bharat Rashtra Samithi has no moral right to criticise the Congress government with regard to its attempts to revive the damaged Medigadda Barrage, part of Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project, terming it a disaster thrusted upon the State by the BRS government. Addressing a press conference at Jala Soudha on Wednesday, Mr. …

Annaram also leaks now, BRS govt to be blamed for damages to barrages: Telangana Minister Uttam Kumar Reddy
10 months ago

Annaram also leaks now, BRS govt to be blamed for damages to barrages: Telangana Minister Uttam Kumar Reddy

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Saturday said that leakages were observed even in Annaram barrage on Friday and noted that the state government has requested the National Dam Safety Authority to visit the project. While tabling the white paper on irrigation and also giving a PowerPoint presentation on the damaged Medigadda barrage in the State Legislative Assembly, …

White Paper says BRS Govt Left Irrigation Sector Crumbling
10 months ago

White Paper says BRS Govt Left Irrigation Sector Crumbling

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana state government on Saturday declared that harsh punishment was in the offing for everyone, irrespective of their standing or stature, for their role in leading Telangana’s irrigation sector into a disastrous situation, and participating in this process. What the then BRS government had done during its nearly ten-year rule of the state, Uttam Kumar Reddy said, left …

Expert panel of NDSA officials to probe KLIS, says Telangana Irrigation Minister Uttam Kumar Reddy
10 months, 1 week ago

Expert panel of NDSA officials to probe KLIS, says Telangana Irrigation Minister Uttam Kumar Reddy

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Thursday said that the state government will order a probe into the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme by an expert committee comprising officials of the National Dam Safety Authority. I was told by engineers that KCR took them in a helicopter and showed them where to construct the barrages one, two and three,” …

TS govt seeks NDSA probe of Kaleshwaram barrages
10 months, 1 week ago

TS govt seeks NDSA probe of Kaleshwaram barrages

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The state government wrote to the National Dam Safety Authority seeking an inquiry into the condition of Medigadda, Annaram, and Sundilla barrages of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme and suggest measures on the future course of action. In informal conversations with media persons at his chambers in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday, irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy slammed …

Uttam: Keen on Narayanpet-Kodangal LI Scheme
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Uttam: Keen on Narayanpet-Kodangal LI Scheme

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Monday assured a delegation of leaders from the erstwhile united Mahbubnagar district, including MLAs, that the Congress government will consider taking up the Narayanpet-Kodangal lift irrigation scheme. Reddy’s assurance came during a meeting with MLAs Vaketi Srihari Mudiraj, Chittem Parnika Reddy, Yennam Srinivas Reddy, G. Madhusudan Reddy and former Kalwakurthy MLA and …

Our govt has come closer to the people: Uttam
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Our govt has come closer to the people: Uttam

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy expressed satisfaction with the performance of the one-month Congress government and highlighted its commitment to transparency, accountability and efficient governance. "We have come closer to the people," he said while emphasising the government's efforts to establish a strong connection with the public, for whom ministers and officials were readily available. We have urged …

Telangana Ministers to Visit Medigadda Barrage Today
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Telangana Ministers to Visit Medigadda Barrage Today

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy and industries minister D. Sridhar Babu will conduct a site visit to the Medigadda barrage on Friday to assess the current status of the barrage, a crucial component of the Kaleshwaram project. The ministers will be presented with a detailed overview by irrigation officials through a PowerPoint presentation on the redesigning of the …

Congress Govt will not spare those who misused public money: Uttam
1 year ago

Congress Govt will not spare those who misused public money: Uttam

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Irrigation and civil supplies minister Capt. N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Wednesday asserted that the Congress Government would not spare anyone found guilty of corruption or misusing public funds. ccusing the previous BRS regime of causing substantial losses and plunging the Civil Supplies Corporation into a massive debt trap, Uttam Kumar Reddy revealed that the corporation has accumulated debts …

Uttam Tells Irrigation Dept to Halt All Tenders
1 year ago

Uttam Tells Irrigation Dept to Halt All Tenders

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Thursday asked officials to immediately stop all tenders called for the construction of various projects before the Assembly elections, apart from those that got work allotment. Taking part in a review of projects in erstwhile Khammam and Nalgonda districts at the Secretariat, Uttam Kumar Reddy said the people were facing unnecessary financial …

Dharmana flays Naidu on north Andhra irrigation projects
1 year, 4 months ago

Dharmana flays Naidu on north Andhra irrigation projects

Deccan Chronicle  

Visakhapatnam: Revenue minister Dharmana Prasada Rao said TD national president N. Chandrababu Naidu should feel ashamed of himself for not completing a single irrigation project in north coastal Andhra, though he had been the chief minister of AP for 14 long years. Addressing a press conference in Srikakulam on Saturday, Prasada Rao maintained that former chief minister Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhar …

Uttam Kumar Reddy demands experts panel on dams
2 years, 3 months ago

Uttam Kumar Reddy demands experts panel on dams

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Congress’ Nalgonda MP Uttam Kumar Reddy on Saturday demanded that the state government constitute an expert committee to study the safety of all existing dams and implement all its recommendations without any delay. Reddy who inspected the left canal of Nagarjunasagar Project which got breached last week, interacted with officials on the extent of damage and the repair works …

Safety and Maintenance of Irrigation Projects Top Priority, Says Andhra Pradesh CM
3 years ago

Safety and Maintenance of Irrigation Projects Top Priority, Says Andhra Pradesh CM

News 18  

In the wake of recent floods and breach of the Annamayya reservoir in Kadapa District, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy directed the officials to prioritise the safety and maintenance of reservoirs and irrigation projects across the State. During a meeting with the officials here on Thursday, the Chief Minister instructed the authorities to conduct a comprehensive review …

Amid Speculation of YSR Congress Joining NDA, Jagan Mohan Meets PM Modi, Discusses Pending Projects
4 years, 2 months ago

Amid Speculation of YSR Congress Joining NDA, Jagan Mohan Meets PM Modi, Discusses Pending Projects

News 18  

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed issues related to the state, including release of pending funds for Polavaram irrigation project. Reddy’s meeting with Modi comes after eight months, amid strong rumours of his party YSR Congress joining the NDA. In the 40-minute meeting, Reddy discussed the pending dues …

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