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Wednesday, Jul 28, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

CM to lay stone for Sripadasagar project

By Our Staff Reporter

KARIMNAGAR, JULY 27. The Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, will lay the foundation-stone for the Yellampalli (Sripadasagar) project in Murmur village in Ramagundam mandal on Wednesday evening.

The Yellampalli project was conceived to utilise surplus Godavari waters in 1999. It may be recalled that People's War naxalites had shot dead the former Assembly Speaker, D. Sripada Rao, in Annaram forests of Mahadevpur mandal and left a note at the site stating that they had killed him for failing to provide Sriram Sagar Project waters to the tail-end areas of the Manthani segment.

Long-standing demand

The former Union Minister, Ch. Vidyasagar Rao had also demanded that the Government finish the project and dedicate it in memory of Mr. Sripada Rao. After a long gap, the Congress Government has decided to take up the project and name it Sripadasagar. When the first phase of the project is completed, an additional 50,000 acres will come under the command area of the SRSP in Manthani and Peddapalli segments.

The Yellampalli project is designed to utilise about 63 tmc water and irrigate about 5 lakh acres in the region. In the first phase, a barrage will be constructed, which will lift about 6.5 tmc water to the National Thermal Power Corporation. In the second phase, about 49.5 tmc will be lifted to the Lower Manair Dam and other upland regions of the district.

Villages to be

submerged

The barrage will be constructed at a height of 145 metres and a total of six villages -- Potial, Madirial, Yellampalli, Murmur, Namnur, and Gudipet will be submerged. A total of 2,382 families will be displaced and 4,563 hectares of land will be under water.

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