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 …
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 …
HYDERABAD: Top Vigilance officials have told TNIE that only a thorough assessment of the substrata of sand below the Medigadda barrage can reveal the actual extent of the damage to it. The National Dam Safety Authority will assess the level of sand erosion and check how much of the barrage is free-standing. Doubts about the stability of the barrage grew …
HYDERABAD: Three barrages — Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla — under the Kaleshwaram lift irrigaiton scheme were damaged even during the 2019 floods and the previous BRS government clandestinely adjusted the Rs 500 crore estimated value of repairs into the revised project cost as the contractors refused to bear the expenditure. According to the draft performance report of the Comptroller and …
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 …