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 …
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 …
