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Social Justice, Equality, Welfare Bedrock of Cong Govt: Uttam
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Social Justice, Equality, Welfare Bedrock of Cong Govt: Uttam

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: There are absolutely no doubts whatsoever as to who is responsible for the plight of the Kaleshwaram project, and it is former chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and his then BRS government that should bear responsibility for the disasters that the Medigadda, Annaram, and Sundilla barrages have turned into, irrigation and civil supplies minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy said. …

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Earthquake prompts urgent checks at Medigadda
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Earthquake prompts urgent checks at Medigadda

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Wednesday’s early morning 5.3 magnitude earthquake near Medaram village in Mulugu district of Telangana is believed to have not impacted the Medigadda barrage on Godavari river, with officials from the irrigation department, fearing possible repercussions, inspecting the barrage and pronouncing it safe from the quake’s impact. Meanwhile, a former senior state irrigation department official with vast experience in operation …

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Urgency Sparks Investigation into Medigadda Barrages' Disrepair
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Urgency Sparks Investigation into Medigadda Barrages' Disrepair

Deccan Chronicle  

Justice P.C. Ghose commission investigating Medigadda barrage continues to uncover details that led to the current state of disrepair of the barrages. Former engineer-in-chief N. Venkateswarulu informed the commission that the height of the cofferdam was increased by about five metres to facilitate work even during the rainy season. He also said that the original design for the cofferdam was …

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Cross-Examination of Witnesses in Medigadda Barrage Inquiry
2 months ago

Cross-Examination of Witnesses in Medigadda Barrage Inquiry

Deccan Chronicle  

Justice P.C. Ghose-led commission of inquiry (CoI) will resume its cross-examination of witnesses in the construction and maintenance of the Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla barrages of the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation scheme (KLIS). The commission will also study the vigilance and enforcement (V&E) wing’s report and the National Dam Safety Authority (NDSA) report.

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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. …

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KTR, BRS party workers threaten to forcibly release Godavari water
4 months, 3 weeks ago

KTR, BRS party workers threaten to forcibly release Godavari water

Hindustan Times  

Bharat Rashtra Samithi working president and former Telangana minister KT Rama Rao on Friday threatened that his party, along with 50,000 farmers would storm the Lakshmi pump house of Kaleshwaram project at Medigadda and forcibly start the pumps to release Godavari water to the command area, if the state government does not act on it by August 2. He sought …

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BRS Pumping Up KLIS Issue, a Likely Ploy to Insulate KCR
4 months, 3 weeks ago

BRS Pumping Up KLIS Issue, a Likely Ploy to Insulate KCR

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The BRS, haunted by the near-disaster that the Kaleshwaram project has turned into under its watch, appears to be desperately trying to up the ante accusing the Congress government of inaction and not putting the project to appropriate use. Rama Rao on Thursday and Friday leading a party MLAs’ visit to the project’s Kannepalli ‘Lakshmi’ pump house and the …

Congress Project Brs Pump Barrage Medigadda Chandrashekar Rao
With 50,000 farmers, BRS will start water pumping after August 2: KTR
4 months, 3 weeks ago

With 50,000 farmers, BRS will start water pumping after August 2: KTR

Deccan Chronicle  

WARANGAL: If the state government does not release water to fill the reservoirs of the Kaleshwaram project by August 2, the BRS leaders will visit Medigadda along with 50,000 farmers to switch the pumps to release water into canals, warned BRS working president K.T.Rama Rao. A team of BRS public representatives led by Rama Rao inspected the water flow at …

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Long-term safety of KLIS barrages need re-engineering: Study
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Long-term safety of KLIS barrages need re-engineering: Study

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The flood protection measures may be in place at Sundilla, Annaram, and Medigadda barrages of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme but if the latest model studies of the Medigadda barrage, and a recent previous study for Annaram are anything to go by, the medium and long-term stability and safety of the barrages will require a massive engineering effort to …

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Kaleshwaram probe panel's term extended
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Kaleshwaram probe panel's term extended

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The government on Saturday extended the term of the Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose-led commission of inquiry into allegations of irregularities in construction of barrages at Sundilla, Annaram and Medigadda as part of the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation scheme by two months. The commission was set up to probe the alleged irregularities and Justice Ghose has visited the three barrages and …

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Telangana: KLIS Future Buried in Sands of Time
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Telangana: KLIS Future Buried in Sands of Time

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: There appears to be no end to the bad news on the Kaleshwaram project front with reports of agencies involved in the repairs and flood protection measures as recommended by the NDSA, struggling to bring up core samples from under the foundations of the Sundilla, Annaram, and Medigadda barrages of the project. And as the drilling for the cores …

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Irrigation Minister Uttam warns of further action post Medigadda judicial report
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Irrigation Minister Uttam warns of further action post Medigadda judicial report

New Indian Express  

BHUPALPALLY: Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Friday said that the government would take further action against officials concerned for the sinking of piers of Medigadda after the judicial commission submits its report. Uttam said that making optimum use of resources to get maximum new ayacut under irrigation is the motto of the Congress government. “Whether old or new …

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KCR left irrigation damaged: Uttam
6 months, 2 weeks ago

KCR left irrigation damaged: Uttam

Deccan Chronicle  

MEDIGADDA: The Congress government on Friday set a deadline of ten days for completing the National Dam Safety Authority ’s recommended measures at the Sundilla, Annaram, and Medigadda barrages with irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy making it clear that not only must the works be completed in a week to a maximum of ten days, but every measure that …

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Buttermilk, Cool Water, ORS Join Battle to Save Medigadda
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Buttermilk, Cool Water, ORS Join Battle to Save Medigadda

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Buttermilk, cooled drinking water, and ORS liquids. With the sun blazing with eye-hurting brightness, and skin-searing heat, and with the sand on the river bed sizzling, battling the elements in the rush to meet the June 10 deadline to complete flood protection works, have added to the challenge for workers at the barrage. “The heat has emerged as the …

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Less Expensive Protection Options at Medigadda Being Explored
6 months, 4 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 …

Department Officials Medigadda Sundilla Barrage Protection Options
Telangana to take up temporary repairs to Kaleshwaram project barrages
7 months ago

Telangana to take up temporary repairs to Kaleshwaram project barrages

Hindustan Times  

Hyderabad The Telangana government will take up temporary repairs to the damaged portions of Medigadda barrage of Kaleshwaram lift irrigation scheme on Godavari river on war footing to ensure that the command area under the project would get irrigation during the upcoming monsoon. Telangana to take up temporary repairs to Kaleshwaram project barrages A decision to this effect was taken …

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Monsoon protection work on Medigadda may be limited to lifting gates
7 months, 1 week ago

Monsoon protection work on Medigadda may be limited to lifting gates

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Monsoon protection works at the Medigadda barrage of the Kaleshwaram project are anticipated to commence, primarily focusing on the lifting of gates in Block 7 – the most severely affected section of the barrage, according to sources. The irrigation department has reportedly instructed L&T, the company responsible for constructing the barrage, to initiate work promptly based on recommendations from …

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No use in repairing Medigadda barrage: NDSA panel report
7 months, 2 weeks 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 …

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Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose to submit detailed Medigadda report
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose to submit detailed Medigadda report

New Indian Express  

BHUPALPALLY: Former Supreme Court judge, Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose, on Tuesday conducted an inspection of the damaged piers of the Lakshmi Barrage of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme. The former judge was accompanied by special secretary, Irrigation, Patil Prashant Jeevan, Jayashankar Bhupalpally district collector Bhavesh Mishra, officials from the Irrigation department and L&T, the contracting company. Interim measures ahead of …

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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 …

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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 …

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Telangana HC Adjourns Petitions Seeking CBI Probe into Kaleshwaram Project
8 months, 1 week ago

Telangana HC Adjourns Petitions Seeking CBI Probe into Kaleshwaram Project

Deccan Chronicle  

The petitions were adjourned in view of the fact that the state government had on March 14 constituted a commission of inquiry to be headed Justice Pinaki Chandra Gosh, former judge of the Supreme Court to inquire into allegations of negligence, irregularities and lacunae in planning, designing and construction of Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla barrages, the manner of award and …

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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 …

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We will Chase You, Play Football with You: KCR Tells Congress Govt
8 months, 2 weeks ago

We will Chase You, Play Football with You: KCR Tells Congress Govt

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: BRS president and former chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Friday launched a no-holds barred attack on the Congress government and issued a warning that his party would not hesitate to turn the state into a battlefield if such a situation was warranted. Referring to what he described as failures of the Congress government with respect to irrigation, supply …

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