Telangana polls: Sinking piers of Kaleswaram project gives ammo to oppn attack
1 year, 1 month ago

Telangana polls: Sinking piers of Kaleswaram project gives ammo to oppn attack

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: From a mock 'Kaleswaram ATM' installed by the Congress to lampoon the family of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao over alleged corruption, to visits of high profile leaders, the Kaleswaram lift irrigation project is one of the issues that has taken centrestage during the ongoing campaign for the Telangana Assembly polls.No speech of any senior leader from opposition Congress or BJP on any platform is complete without a reference to the 'sinking' piers of the Kaleswaram project. I visited the Medigadda barrage, which is a part of the corruption-ridden Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme in Telangana," the Congress MP said on "X". Indicating that if the BRS government is sincere in ascertaining the truth, Kishan Reddy had said the Centre is ready to order a CBI inquiry, if Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao writes a letter on the issue of "damage" to the Medigadda barrage of Kaleswaram lift irrigation project. However, the Telangana government has alleged that the National Dam Safety Authority has sent a communication to the state government "in haste" without checking details it submitted with regard to the Medigadda barrage.

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All pending projects will be completed on war footing: Minister Uttam Kumar Reddy
3 weeks ago

All pending projects will be completed on war footing: Minister Uttam Kumar Reddy

New Indian Express  

PEDDAPALLI: Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy has announced that the state government will complete all pending irrigation projects on a war footing to ensure availability of irrigation facilities for every acre. He, along with IT Minister D Sridhar Babu and Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar, reviewed the ongoing works at irrigation projects as well as the matters related to civil …

Two Telangana irrigation schemes yet to come into operation
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Two Telangana irrigation schemes yet to come into operation

Hindustan Times  

Two major lift irrigation projects, taken up by the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi government in Telangana at a cost of more than ₹1.25 lakh crore in the last 10 years, have failed to justify the expenditure incurred on them, according to the reports tabled by the present Congress government, during the budget session of the state assembly session. While the …

Telangana Govt Is Committed to Protect Kaleshwaram Project, Says Bhatti
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Telangana Govt Is Committed to Protect Kaleshwaram Project, Says Bhatti

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, who holds charge of the finance department, reiterated that the state government was committed to protecting the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation scheme in accordance with the directors of the National Dam Safety Authority to ensure that thousands of crores of public money spent on the project did not go waste. Lashing out at the …

Telangana to take up temporary repairs to Kaleshwaram project barrages
7 months ago

Telangana to take up temporary repairs to Kaleshwaram project barrages

Hindustan Times  

Hyderabad The Telangana government will take up temporary repairs to the damaged portions of Medigadda barrage of Kaleshwaram lift irrigation scheme on Godavari river on war footing to ensure that the command area under the project would get irrigation during the upcoming monsoon. Telangana to take up temporary repairs to Kaleshwaram project barrages A decision to this effect was taken …

Telangana govt likely to construct cofferdam at Medigadda
8 months ago

Telangana govt likely to construct cofferdam at Medigadda

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: The state government is likely to construct a cofferdam above the seventh pier of the Medigadda barrage to divert water from the Godavari river for the Kharif season. “Once, we receive the report, the chief minister will take the final call on how to go about the damaged Medigadda barrage,” sources in the government said. Though there were reports …

Ryots suffering, start supplying water, says KT Rama Rao
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Ryots suffering, start supplying water, says KT Rama Rao

New Indian Express  

KARIMNAGAR: BRS working president KT Rama Rao on Thursday said that farmers were suffering due Congress government’s reluctance to repair the damaged piers of Medigadda barrage. During his visit to Karimnagar to oversee the arrangements being made for the BRS Kadana Bheri public meeting scheduled for March 12, Rama Rao also visited farms where the crops are going dry due …

Uttam Kumar Reddy: Committtee to start inspection of Kaleshwaram project from March 6
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Uttam Kumar Reddy: Committtee to start inspection of Kaleshwaram project from March 6

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Sunday said that the expert committee constituted by the NDSA is scheduled to arrive on March 6 for a thorough examination of the Kaleshwaram project. Uttam said that the committee was formed following a request for a comprehensive investigation into the sinking of Medigadda barrage piers and potential damage to the Annaram …

Medigadda row: KTR brazens it out, standing at leaking barrage
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Medigadda row: KTR brazens it out, standing at leaking barrage

Deccan Chronicle  

Rama Rao on Friday visited the Medigadda barrage, built amid great fanfare by the BRS government but which sank at the end of its tenure, and the Annaram barrage which sprang a leak. With these structures as the backdrop, Rama Rao claimed that he had gone there to fend off the "false propaganda" being made against the Kaleshwaram project. Let …

I wasn't Irrigation Minister: KTR on Medigadda Problems
9 months, 3 weeks ago

I wasn't Irrigation Minister: KTR on Medigadda Problems

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao on Tuesday said he could not answer questions on the then BRS government’s specific responses and action when it began receiving reports from irrigation engineers and contracting companies about problems arising at the Medigadda and other barrages of the Kaleshwaram project. He maintained there was “no negligence as such but things do happen,” …

BRS claimed Medigadda was a boon, but it has turned into a blot: Telangana CM Revanth Reddy
10 months ago

BRS claimed Medigadda was a boon, but it has turned into a blot: Telangana CM Revanth Reddy

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Saturday asked BRS leaders to tender an apology for the mistakes that occurred in the construction of the Medigadda barrage and give confessional statements when the state government-ordered probe by a retired judge gets underway. The chief minister said that even the five-member committee of retired engineers constituted by the then BRS government …

Design defects led to damages to Kaleshwaram barrages: CAG
10 months, 1 week ago

Design defects led to damages to Kaleshwaram barrages: CAG

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The CAG said that design faults resulted in the damages — that began in November 2019 — to the Medigadda barrage, as well at the Annaram and Sundilla barrages of the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation scheme. The CAG said that after the gates of the barrages were closed after the 2019 floods, it was found that the reinforced cement concrete …

A few piers sinking is no big deal, can be repaired: Harish
10 months, 1 week ago

A few piers sinking is no big deal, can be repaired: Harish

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The BRS on Tuesday sought to dismiss the partial sinking of the Medigadda barrage as a very minor problem. Former irrigation minister T. Harish Rao said that the mere sinking of a few piers was being portrayed by the Congress government as if the entire project was a write off. Harish Rao accused the Congress government of using the …

Kaleshwaram: Rs 94,000 cr spent but irrigation not provided equal amount of acres
10 months, 1 week ago

Kaleshwaram: Rs 94,000 cr spent but irrigation not provided equal amount of acres

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy invited former CM and BRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao to the Assembly on Wednesday to discuss about the Medigadda barrage. Highlights Telangana people’s funds were wasted for KCR’s Kaleshwaram project According to the official figures, Kaleshwaram project, of which Medigadda barrage is a component, has failed to provide irrigation water to at least 97,000 …

Revanth To Head Medigadda, KCR To Dig In at Nalgonda
10 months, 1 week ago

Revanth To Head Medigadda, KCR To Dig In at Nalgonda

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: A day after the Congress government put the BRS on notice over the issue of the handing over of projects on Krishna river to the Krishna River Management Board, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is all set to launch a new front on Tuesday against the Opposition party by visiting the partially collapsed Medigadda barrage of Kaleshwaram project, that …

Medigadda Barrage Fiasco: Govt Accepts Muralidhar Rao’s Resignation
10 months, 1 week ago

Medigadda Barrage Fiasco: Govt Accepts Muralidhar Rao’s Resignation

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Former engineer-in-chief of the irrigation department, C. Muralidhar Rao, is no longer in service with the government accepting his resignation from the post. It may be recalled that irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy had directed Rao to put in his papers on February 7 as part of the government’s clean-up of the department, after the Medigadda barrage fiasco …

BRS, Congress Pick Rivers for Water War
10 months, 1 week ago

BRS, Congress Pick Rivers for Water War

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Two political parties. And gearing up for this and to drown one another with each side ready with bucket loads of charges and counter charges, and evidence, are the Congress, and the BRS, both of which have chosen February 13 for the showdown On the one side, gathering its troops at Nalgonda, to be addressed by party chief K. …

Medigadda Saga Raises More Doubts About BRS's Intentions
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Medigadda Saga Raises More Doubts About BRS's Intentions

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: More and more skeletons are tumbling out of the former BRS government’s closet over the sinking of a portion of the Medigadda Barrage, a key component of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme. As reported in these columns earlier, the contract entered into with L&T by the irrigation department for the construction of the barrage included a brief that the …

Telangana HC seeks update on plaint seeking probe into Medigadda sinking
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Telangana HC seeks update on plaint seeking probe into Medigadda sinking

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court on Friday directed the state government to furnish a written update on the action taken regarding a complaint seeking probes by the Central Bureau of Investigation and Serious Fraud Investigation Office into the sinking of the piers of the Medigadda barrage. A bench, comprising Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Anil Kumar Jukanti, was adjucating …

Telangana: Vigilance officials to submit preliminary report on Medigadda barrage to state govt next week
11 months ago

Telangana: Vigilance officials to submit preliminary report on Medigadda barrage to state govt next week

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD : The Vigilance and Enforcement officials are likely to submit their preliminary report on the sinking of the piers of Medigadda barrage to the state government next week. The government ordered a probe into the sinking of Medigadda barrage two weeks ago. The officials reportedly felt that the loss to the exchequer due to the sinking of piers of …

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 …

BJP slams BRS govt over Medigadda, Kaleshwaram project
1 year, 1 month ago

BJP slams BRS govt over Medigadda, Kaleshwaram project

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The BJP on Friday mounted a frontal attack on the BRS government on the Kaleshwaram project with BJP state president and Union Minister G Kishan Reddy saying the project has become a “hallmark” of “corruption, failed projects, leakages” of the Telangana state government. Today, 10 years after its formation, Telangana, under the BRS government headed by KCR, after spending …

Amidst Oppn Onslaught, Govt Keeps Mum, Medigadda a Write Off for Now
1 year, 1 month ago

Amidst Oppn Onslaught, Govt Keeps Mum, Medigadda a Write Off for Now

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Possible design faults that did not factor in shifting of sand from under the foundations of the Lakshmi barrage at Medigadda on Godavari river, are believed to be the primary causes that resulted in subsidence of one of the 7 blocks of the barrage, making the entire structure useless with respect to storage of water for which it was …

Political Parties Demand White Paper, Inquiry Over Medigadda Barrage Damage
1 year, 2 months ago

Political Parties Demand White Paper, Inquiry Over Medigadda Barrage Damage

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Congress and the BJP slammed the BRS government for the damage to the Medigadda barrage and said the onus lay squarely on Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and his family members. Why is the BJP, which is alleging corruption in the construction of the Kaleshwaram projet not ordering a probe into the issue.” In a press meet held …

Testing The Waters: 5 Things to Know about Telangana's Controversial Kaleshwaram Project
1 year, 9 months ago

Testing The Waters: 5 Things to Know about Telangana's Controversial Kaleshwaram Project

News 18  

YSR Telangana Party president YS Sharmila took her fight against the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation project in the southern state to Delhi on Tuesday. Built on the Godavari river at Kaleshwaram village in Jayashankar Bhupalpally district, it is said to be the largest multi-stage lift irrigation project in the world. Kaleshwaram project is said to have the world’s largest underground pumping …

Farmers affected with backwater of Medigadda barrage intensify movement
2 years, 1 month ago

Farmers affected with backwater of Medigadda barrage intensify movement

Deccan Chronicle  

WARANGAL: Farmers from around 12 villages who are unable to cultivate crops due to the submergence of their fields by the backwater of the Medigadda barrage built under the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme project decided to intensify their agitation by using the social media platform to demand compensation from the state government in Jayashankar Bhupalpally district. From the time when …

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