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Dummugudem as per design: YSR

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Works to commence in another two months

TALLAGUDEM ( KHAMMAM DT.): The Chief Minister, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, stated categorically that the Dummugudem project would be implemented as per the original design. Addressing a news conference here he said that the tender process for the project had already begun. As excess rates were quoted in some case, negotiations were in progress.

He said there was demand for adding some more areas to the proposed command area of the project. "Such demands were common whenever a new project was coming up. We are looking into it," he said adding that the Government would examine the scope for any lift scheme if necessary to cater to the irrigation needs of new areas.

He stated that the Dummugudem project was aimed at giving water to over 4 lakh acres in Khammam district including the areas of Kothagudem, Yellandu and Khammam. Both phase I and phase II of the project were designed to extend irrigation facilities to almost equal extent of ayacut. The works would be taken up in two months time, he said adding that he would be visiting the district once again for laying the stone.

Declining to go further into the technicalities of the project, he said, "I do not know about the spot where the lifts would put up to draw water from Godavari."

MLAs plea

Earlier seven MLAs from the district -- Thammineni Veerabhadram, Katta Venkata Narsaiah and Sunnam Rajaiah (CPI-M), Sambhani Chandrasekhar, Ramreddy Venkata Reddy and Vanama Venkateswar Rao ( Congress) and Gummadai Narsaiah ( CPIML- New Democracy) -- made a representation to the Chief Minister stressing the need for implementing the Dummugudem lift irrigation scheme as per the original design to ensure maximum benefit to the upland areas in Khammam. Later, speaking at a public meeting, Mr. Veerabhadram, the CPI (M) district Secretary and Khammam MLA, said that the Chief Minister responded positively to their plea. He said that the project was meant primarily to cater the parched lands in the district and any deviation from the original design would be opposed.

He said that all the elected representatives in the district, except for the Sathupalliu MLA, Jalagam Venkata Rao, (who wanted the first phase of the project to take off from Rudrammakota point on Godavari river) were in favour of the original design of the project.

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