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More lift schemes on the anvil

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IDC employees observe formation day; vow to strive for farmers’ cause

Live up to farmers’ expectations, exhorts ZP chief
Steps afoot to cover additional ayacut

KHAMMAM: The Andhra Pradesh State Irrigation Development Corporation (IDC) employees on Sunday observed the formation day of the organisation by pledging to rededicate themselves to the cause of the peasant community.

Zilla Parishad chairperson G. Vijaya Lakshmi, who was the chief guest, planted a sapling on the office premises.

Addressing the gathering, she wanted the corporation to take up new schemes to extend the irrigation facility to upland areas.

The expectations of the farmers were high and elected representatives and officials must strive to live up to them. She said that the district had tremendous irrigation potential.

IDC Executive Engineer Md. Anwar said that the corporation had plans to cover an additional ayacut of 10,200 acres by taking up 20 new lift schemes as part of its new programme. The corporation, which came in to existence in 1974, could give irrigation facility to some 1,700 acres benefiting mainly small and marginal farmers.

Immense potential

In all, 336 lift schemes were constructed tapping the immense irrigation potential in the district during the past three decades.

Six more lift schemes were taken up in the district under the Nabarad assistance programme with an outlay of Rs. 13.84 crores covering 4,654 acres. Four more lift schemes costing Rs. 25.70 crores were under construction under the State plan.

Besides this, construction of another 23 lifts was taken up in the tribal sub plan area of the district at an estimated cost of Rs. 5.98 crores borne by the ITDA and they would benefit an area of 2,394 acres, he added.

A social engineering cell was opened in the IDC division here to monitor the participatory management of the lift schemes by involving the beneficiary farmers. IDC coordinator Lakhmnana Murthy also spoke.

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