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YSR lays stone for Yellampalli project

By Our Staff Reporter

YELLAMPALLI (KARIMNAGAR DT), JULY 28. The Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, has promised to complete the ambitious Yellampalli (Sripada Rao) project on the river Godavari in four to five years.

Dr. Reddy laid the foundation-stone for the project at Murmur village in Ramagundam mandal on Wednesday evening. Yellampalli is the fourth major irrigation project on the Godavari in Telangana region. The project is designed to utilise about 63 tmc of water at a cost of Rs. 900 crores in the first phase. In the second phase, about 49.5 tmc would be lifted to the upland regions of Karimnagar, Adilabad, Nizamabad, Warangal and Medak districts.

Addressing a public meeting at the project site, the Chief Minister promised to complete the first and second phases of the project simultaneously and ensure water to additional 6 lakh acres in Karimnagar, Adilabad, Medak, Warangal and Nizamabad districts. He said they would lay a strong foundation for increasing the height of the barrage to 148 metres against the designed 143.5 metres height.

Free power to lift schemes

He announced free power supply to all lift irrigation schemes in the State. Cloud-seeding would be taken up in the north Telangana districts in the next 10 to 15 days.

The Peddapalli MP, G. Venkat Swamy, the Minister for Major Irrigation, Ponnala Laxmaiah, the legislators, K Eshwar, D Sridhar, M Diwakar Rao also spoke.

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