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Pipelining work of Indirasagar gets under way

D. Chandra Bhaskar Rao

The project will benefit two lakh acres
Laying of pipelines will be completed in one year

Photo: G.N. Rao

Ambitious agenda: The pipe laying work under Indirasagar lift scheme in progress. -

RUDRAMKOTA (Khammam dist ): Pipelining work for the Rs. 1,824 crore Indirasagar lift scheme, a multi-purpose irrigation project aimed at intra-basin transfer of water, got underway.

The work is in progress in six segments of the 70 km-long stretch starting from Vasantawada village, where the head works will come up soon. The three-lined piping, designed to carry some 18,000 cusecs of water drawn from Godavari river, will benefit 2 lakh acres of area in Khammam, West Godavari and Krishna districts.

A Russian firm, which has been entrusted with the work, had set up three pipe manufacturing units along the side of the water supply channel route.

A fourth unit will commence production of the huge cement coated steel pipes (each of 3 m diameter) very soon.

Some 11-km. pipes were manufactured so far.

The company is adding to the production by one fourth of a km every day. It had completed the pipe laying in a 1.5 km-long stretch and the pipeline work is expected to be completed within one year . The land acquisition in a five km-long stretch is already completed.

The progress of the pipelining is likely to depend more or less on the progress of the land acquisition.

The project which was sans any major deforestation would be completed ahead of the four-year construction schedule, said Superintending Engineer of Dummugudem Circle A.V.S. Muralikrishna.

Two modifications were made in the original design. A balancing reservoir of two tmc capacity would come up at Boligattu and 5 km-long main intake canal would be constructed from 0 to 5 km. of the channel.

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