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 us reject this false propaganda," Rama Rao said, ignoring the fact that the barrage is the lynchpin of the scheme without which the Kaleshwaram project could be rendered useless.Rama Rao also ignored that authority after authority has faulted the BRS government for the poor design of the scheme and the barrages, for ignoring vital parameters, for ignoring the advise of experts against building the project, among others.Speaking with the media at the Annaram barrage, he said, "The visit is only the first step in a series of efforts to put the reality of Kaleshwaram before the people. Engineering experts will be part of the teams.He reiterated that if the fields of farmers were to be saved from drying, the Kaleshwaram scheme was the only source.Former irrigation minister T. Harish Rao claimed that the announcement by the Congress government that the barrage would be repaired was a victory.

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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 …

CPI(M) Urges CM Revanth Reddy for White Paper on Water Crisis
8 months, 2 weeks 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 …

‘Incompetent’ Cong. govt. thrusting manmade calamity on farmers: KCR
8 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Incompetent’ Cong. govt. thrusting manmade calamity on farmers: KCR

The Hindu  

Bharat Rashtra Samithi president and former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has launched a ‘stinging’ attack on all those who are at the helm in the Congress government for “sheer incompetence that nullified the benefits given to farmers during the BRS rule and imposed a manmade calamity on them.” “The enormity of the ‘artificial’ calamity presently gripping Telangana is much …

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 …

KLIS inspection: Uttam assures full cooperation to NDSA expert panel
9 months, 2 weeks ago

KLIS inspection: Uttam assures full cooperation to NDSA expert panel

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy welcomed the Centre's decision to constitute an expert committee of the National Dam Safety Authority to inspect Medigadda, Annaram, and Sundilla barrages of the Kaleshwaram lift urrigation scheme. Uttam Kumar Reddy assured full cooperation from the state government. He said that the panel was formed following a request for a comprehensive investigation into …

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. …

KTR's Medigadda Solution of Cofferdam Dangerous, Reckless: Expert
9 months, 3 weeks ago

KTR's Medigadda Solution of Cofferdam Dangerous, Reckless: Expert

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Former chief minister and BRS president K. Chandrashekar Rao had famously claimed while in power, many times, that he “designed” the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme after a “lot of study” and consultations with experts. In fact, the solution is fairly simple, claimed Rama Rao at a presser on Tuesday, declaring that all that was required was to build a …

Uttam: KCR, Aides Must Say Sorry After Dam Visit
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Uttam: KCR, Aides Must Say Sorry After Dam Visit

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Wednesday said the state government will make all arrangements needed for BRS leaders visiting Medigadda on March 1 for a visit to the damaged key barrage of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme. Once Medigadda collapsed, he stopped talking about irrigation, Uttam Kumar Reddy said. On Rama Rao’s demand for building a cofferdam …

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 …

Revanth fires back at KCR for using abusive language
10 months, 1 week ago

Revanth fires back at KCR for using abusive language

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Wednesday said the people had punished BRS president K. Chandrashekar Rao in the recent Assembly polls and warned that more public backlash is in store for the former chief minister in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Coming down hard on Rao for allegedly abusing him at a BRS meeting in Nalgonda on Tuesday, …

Medigadda barrage sinking: Union Minister Kishan Reddy dares Congress to seek CBI probe
10 months, 1 week ago

Medigadda barrage sinking: Union Minister Kishan Reddy dares Congress to seek CBI probe

New Indian Express  

HANAMKONDA/RAJANNA-SIRCILLA: Accusing Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy of staging a “political drama” in the name of the Medigadda barrage sinking, BJP state president and Union Minister G Kishan Reddy on Tuesday sharply criticised the Congress government for the trip to the barrage amid the Budget session of the Assembly. Speaking to the media here, Kishan claimed that Congress lacked the …

Rs 1 lakh crore spent, not even one lakh acres irrigated: Telangana CM Revanth Reddy
10 months, 1 week ago

Rs 1 lakh crore spent, not even one lakh acres irrigated: Telangana CM Revanth Reddy

New Indian Express  

MEDIGADDA: After inspecting the damage to the Medigadda barrage, a key component of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme, Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday declared that KLIS didn’t create ayacut of even one lakh acres despite close to Rs 1 lakh crore being spent on it. Given the current situation of the project, Irrigation authorities are not storing …

L&T Must Repair, Revive Medigadda at Its Cost: Uttam
10 months, 1 week ago

L&T Must Repair, Revive Medigadda at Its Cost: Uttam

Deccan Chronicle  

Medigadda: Irrigation minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Tuesday made it clear that the government had told Larsen & Toubro that it was its responsibility to conduct all the required studies to ascertain the reasons for the sinking of the Medigadda barrage piers, and also take up repairs at the company’s cost. “As part of the action taken so far, …

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 …

Telangana CM leads delegation to take stock of Medigadda barrage
10 months, 1 week ago

Telangana CM leads delegation to take stock of Medigadda barrage

India TV News  

Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, his cabinet colleagues and MLAs on Tuesday left for Medigadda barrage whose piers had "sunk" last year. The chief minister said the irrigation minister would present a white paper on irrigation during the next couple of days in the assembly and a visit to the Medigadda barrage would help the MLAs, many of them …

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 …

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 …

Beginning Was Also the Start of End for Medigadda
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Beginning Was Also the Start of End for Medigadda

Deccan Chronicle  

The Medigadda barrage disaster appears to have had its roots in its hurried inauguration by the then BRS government headed by then Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, who also held the irrigation portfolio. Despite knowing that the cofferdam must be removed first, the BRS government went ahead with filling up the Medigadda barrage,” revealed sources in the Vigilance and Enforcement …

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 …

Medigadda Engineers Kept Mum When Barrage was Cracking up: Vigilance Probe Findings
11 months ago

Medigadda Engineers Kept Mum When Barrage was Cracking up: Vigilance Probe Findings

Deccan Chronicle  

: The ongoing probe by the vigilance and enforcement wing of the state police has revealed that there appeared to be not an ounce of professionalism on the part of the engineers, involved in the construction of the now out of action Medigadda barrage, or for that matter the Annaram and Sundilla barrages upstream of Medigadda, which are feared to …

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 …

Revanth vows judicial inquiry into Medigadda collapse, says all MLAs will visit site
1 year ago

Revanth vows judicial inquiry into Medigadda collapse, says all MLAs will visit site

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Saturday said that the state government would order an inquiry by a judge into the sinking of piers at the Medigadda barrage, which is part of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme. Speaking in the Legislative Council, Revanth Reddy said that the state government will take all MLAs and MLCs to the Medigadda barrage …

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 …

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 …

Rahul Gandhi visits Medigadda barrage, alleges poor quality of construction
1 year, 1 month ago

Rahul Gandhi visits Medigadda barrage, alleges poor quality of construction

Deccan Chronicle  

WARANGAL: Intensifying the Congress’ focus on the alleged quality issues in the construction of Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao’s prestigious Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme project, former AICC president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday inspected the Medigadda barrage, where some of the pillars sank. Accompanied by Telangana state Congress president A. Revanth Reddy and engineering officials of the irrigation department, Rahul Gandhi …

Doubts Over Kaleshwaram Barrages\' Structural Stability
1 year, 1 month ago

Doubts Over Kaleshwaram Barrages\' Structural Stability

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The startling revelation by Telangana state’s top irrigation official C. Muralidhar that the Medigadda barrage was constructed on a raft foundation, that too on an unstable soil, raised serious doubts over the structural safety of not just the two or three pillars that sank a few of days ago but all the three barrages built as part of the …

Medigadda Pillar Cracks Spread Wider
1 year, 1 month ago

Medigadda Pillar Cracks Spread Wider

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Cracks, which appeared on the two pillars of the seventh block of the Medigadda barrage, have spread to four more pillars in the sixth to eighth blocks on Wednesday. According to sources, the pillars sank 7.5 feet deep in five days — five feet deep on Saturday, another one and a half feet by Tuesday and one more foot …

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 …

Villagers downstream Medigadda barrage spend sleepless nights
1 year, 1 month ago

Villagers downstream Medigadda barrage spend sleepless nights

Deccan Chronicle  

MANTHANI : Thousands of people in the villages located downstream of Medigadda barrage are experiencing sleepless nights after the pillars of a bridge sunk by 0.6 meters in the Manthani Assembly Constituency in Jayashankar Bhupalapalli district. The incident created panic among the local people and many people were engaged in discussions in the villages for the last two days over …

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 …

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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