L&T Must Repair, Revive Medigadda at Its Cost: Uttam
10 months, 4 weeks 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, the government has held back Rs 400 crore payment due to the company,” Uttam Kumar Reddy said. Uttam Kumar Reddy was answering questions from reporters during a visit to the Medigadda barrage along with Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, some of his Cabinet colleagues, several Congress legislators, and a few MIM legislators. The Chief Minister reviewed the status of Medigadda, and Annaram and Sundilla barrages, part of the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation scheme, after inspecting the sunken portion of the Medigadda barrage.

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Less Expensive Protection Options at Medigadda Being Explored
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Less Expensive Protection Options at Medigadda Being Explored

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The irrigation department, likely staring at expensive repairs to the stricken Medigadda barrage where protection works are to be completed – to the extent possible – before the onset of monsoon this year and the beginning of increasing flows in Godavari river, and possible floods, is exploring ways and means for quick and less expensive fixes to address some …

No use in repairing Medigadda barrage: NDSA panel report
8 months ago

No use in repairing Medigadda barrage: NDSA panel report

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: The interim report of the expert committee constituted by the National Dam Safety Authority stated that there would be no use, even if repairs were carried out to the damaged piers of Medigadda. In order to avoid/minimise hydraulic forces on gates as well as structure, all gates of Block 7 shall be lifted to fully opened position before onset …

Telangana govt likely to construct cofferdam at Medigadda
8 months, 3 weeks 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
9 months 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 …

Uttam Kumar Reddy: Committtee to start inspection of Kaleshwaram project from March 6
10 months, 1 week 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
10 months, 1 week 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 …

BRS Built Kaleshwaram on Foundation of Lies, Says Uttam
10 months, 1 week ago

BRS Built Kaleshwaram on Foundation of Lies, Says Uttam

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Friday dismissed the visit to the Medigadda barrage by the BRS, calling it “laughable.” He also asked if BRS working president K.T. Uttam Kumar Reddy declared, “Our government will take criminal action against those responsible as per law.” The Vigilance & Enforcement Wing had been tasked with fixing responsibility for various lapses, …

Uttam Kumar Reddy ridicules BRS for suggestion on repairing Medigadda Barrage, terms ‘Chalo Medigadda’ a political gimmick
10 months, 1 week 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. …

I wasn't Irrigation Minister: KTR on Medigadda Problems
10 months, 2 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,” …

Annaram also leaks now, BRS govt to be blamed for damages to barrages: Telangana Minister Uttam Kumar Reddy
10 months, 3 weeks 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, …

BRS claimed Medigadda was a boon, but it has turned into a blot: Telangana CM Revanth Reddy
10 months, 3 weeks 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 …

Medigadda barrage sinking: Union Minister Kishan Reddy dares Congress to seek CBI probe
10 months, 4 weeks 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 …

Kaleshwaram: Rs 94,000 cr spent but irrigation not provided equal amount of acres
10 months, 4 weeks 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, 4 weeks 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, 4 weeks 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, 4 weeks 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
11 months 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 Assembly Session May See sparks Fly on Barrage Fiasco
11 months ago

Telangana Assembly Session May See sparks Fly on Barrage Fiasco

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Matters over the partial collapse of the Medigadda barrage, the lynchpin of the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation scheme, are likely to create a new political firestorm in the Assembly Budget Session starting on February 8, with the Vigilance and Enforcement wing that probed the fiasco submitting its report to the state government. While the first three barrages of the Kaleshwaram …

Telangana: Vigilance officials to submit preliminary report on Medigadda barrage to state govt next week
11 months, 2 weeks 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, 2 weeks 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
1 year 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 …

BJP slams BRS govt over Medigadda, Kaleshwaram project
1 year, 2 months 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 …

Repair of Barrage Will Be Costly and Time Consuming, Say Experts
1 year, 2 months ago

Repair of Barrage Will Be Costly and Time Consuming, Say Experts

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Contrary to claims that the sinking of a section of the ‘Lakshmi’ barrage at Medigadda is something that can be dealt with without too much of trouble, it appears that the Telangana irrigation department, and L&T Construction — which built the barrage and according to officials which will take up rectification work at its cost — the task of …

Amidst Oppn Onslaught, Govt Keeps Mum, Medigadda a Write Off for Now
1 year, 2 months 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 …

Farmers affected with backwater of Medigadda barrage intensify movement
2 years, 2 months 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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