The Greater Chennai Corporation has yet to begin cleaning 19 of the 42 waterbodies it planned to tackle this year under various schemes. As per the data, the Singara Chennai 2.0 scheme includes the restoration of 12 ponds spanning 32,424 square meters with an estimated cost of ₹9.07 crore. Of these, three ponds covering 3,211 square meters with a budget …
VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh government is awaiting a nod from the Central Water Commission to go ahead with its dewatering plans and resume works on the scoured portion of the diaphragm wall of the Polavaram irrigation project at Polavaram in Eluru district. Water resources authorities are facing the biggest challenge of dewatering nearly 450 acres of work area located between …
Vijayawada: Attempts by the water resources department to continue the works of Polavaram project’s diaphragm wall even during the Godavari floods proved futile. The Polavaram project authorities planned to avoid any disruption to the ongoing works at the D-wall so as to expedite the completion of the project and set up the dewatering equipment with high capacity motors and even …
