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 for not being able to provide information on the project and they had no answers to the questions raised by the NDSA committee. In spite of the state government’s directive to all the engineers involved in the construction of the Kaleswaram project to attend the important meeting, former ENC Muralidhar Rao skipped it.

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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 …

Uncertainty dogs Kaleshwaram barrages repairs
3 months ago

Uncertainty dogs Kaleshwaram barrages repairs

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: With barely a couple of weeks left before the official end of the monsoon season, the future of the three Kaleshwaram project barrages — at Medigadda, Annaram, and Sundilla — is wrapped in uncertainty with no clarity yet on what needs to be done, or how to go about repairing and restoring the barrages to get them back on …

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 …

Irrigation Officials Urge Telangana Govt to Seek IIT Roorkee Expertise for Kaleshwaram Barrages
4 months, 1 week ago

Irrigation Officials Urge Telangana Govt to Seek IIT Roorkee Expertise for Kaleshwaram Barrages

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Serious questions have been raised from within the irrigation department over the competence levels of its Central Designs Organisation, the department’s independent division, which provided designs that were used for the construction of the three barrages of the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation scheme at Sundilla, Annaram, and Medigadda — all of which are now in dire need of permanent repairs. …

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 …

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 …

Andhra Pradesh: Experts to Submit Interim Report on Polavaram Project soon
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Andhra Pradesh: Experts to Submit Interim Report on Polavaram Project soon

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: The four -member team of international experts from the US and Canada would give their interim report in a week or two, with recommendations on how to take up works on damaged components of the Polavaram irrigation project from November. The international experts along with expert agencies like the Polavaram project authority, the central water commission and other stakeholders, …

Expert Committee for Kaleshwaram Scheme Probe Set to be Established
7 months ago

Expert Committee for Kaleshwaram Scheme Probe Set to be Established

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: A four-member expert committee, sought by Justice P.C. Ghose, who heads the Judicial Commission investigating irregularities in the execution of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme, will soon be established. The engineer-in-chief of the Irrigation and Command Area Development department has written to the government, indicating that five experts, as requested by the Judicial Commission, have been identified and urged …

Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme panel open to summoning ‘anyone’
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme panel open to summoning ‘anyone’

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: Uncertainity looms over whether former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will be summoned by Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose, heading a judicial commission investigating the irregularities and corruption allegations in the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme. When TNIE posed the same question to Justice Ghose, who commenced his work at the BRKR Bhavan on Thursday, he shot back: “Do you want …

National Dam Safety Authority Grills Engineers on Kaleshwaram Project Barrages
9 months ago

National Dam Safety Authority Grills Engineers on Kaleshwaram Project Barrages

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The team of experts from the National Dam Safety Authority is reported to have grilled engineers from the Central Design Organisation of the state irrigation department, and representatives of contracting companies that build the three Kaleshwaram project barrages at Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla, on Thursday The NDSA team, led by former Central Water Commission chairman J. Chandrashekar Iyer, is …

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 …

NDSA team arrives in Telangana for KLIS inspection
9 months, 2 weeks ago

NDSA team arrives in Telangana for KLIS inspection

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: The National Dam Safety Authority expert committee, headed by former chairman of Central Water Commission J Chandrashekhar Iyer, arrived here on Wednesday and held a preliminary meeting with Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy and other officials before leaving for Medigadda in the evening. The government would take stern action against those officials who fail to provide required information …

NDSA forms technical panel to inspect barrages in Telangana
9 months, 2 weeks ago

NDSA forms technical panel to inspect barrages in Telangana

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: The technical committee constituted by the National Dam Safety Authority to visit and carry out inspections of the Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla barrages will submit its report within four months. The committee will examine the project data, drawings, design memoranda, tests and site investigation reports, barrage inspection reports and other reports/material related to the design, construction, quality control and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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