Row over check-dam

By Our Staff Reporter

KARIMNAGAR, DEC. 3. After the Almatti dispute between two States over water, now it is a row between two Telangana districts in the State over the construction of a check dam. The Medak district authorities have started the construction of a check-dam at Kudellivagu near Alwal village of Mediddodi mandal of the Dommeta Assembly segment thus denying water sources for the Upper Manair Dam (UMD) in Karimnagar district.

The District Irrigation Advisory Board meeting on Sunday unanimously passed a resolution urging the State Government to abandon the construction of a check dam at Alwal village of Medidoddi mandal of the Dommeta constituency in Medak district as the inflows into the Upper Manair Dam would be stopped permanently.

The Nerella TDP legislator, Mr S Devaiah, who could not attend the meeting had sent a message to the District Collector urging him to move the resolution against the construction of check dam in Medak district. Mr Devaiah in his message stated that the Nizam government had constructed the Upper Manair Dam taking into consideration inflows from the Kudellivagu of Medak district. He said recently the Medak administration had launched construction of a check dam by diverting the waters from the Kudellivagu thus denying waters to UMD reservoir. He urged the Government to abandon the construction of check dam in the interests of farmers of the district.

It may be mentioned here that the Upper Manair project is located in Narmal village of Gambhiraopeta mandal of Karimnagar district. The full reservoir level of the project is 1482 feet and provides irrigation facilities to 5,296 hectares in the region.

The two other Congress legislators, Mr Bomma Venkateshwar and Mr J Ratnakar Rao, and the BJP legislator, Mr T Venkataramana Reddy, also supported the cause of the TDP legislator. Later, the meeting discussed the release of water under the rabi crop from medium and minor irrigation projects. The Collector, Mr Debabrata Kantha, who chaired the meeting said that they had decided to release water for 5,000 acres of paddy crop from Upper Manair project during the Rabi season.

The meeting also decided to release water to 2,500 acres under the Shanigaram project in Koheda mandal and 500 acres under the Buggulavagu project in Malhar Rao mandal in the rabi season. The Jagtial Sub-Collector, Mr Sandeep Kumar Sultania, the DRO, Mr P Konda Reddy, the SE (irrigation, Nirmal), Mr Y Lavakusha Reddy, the SE (panchayat raj), Mr Indrasena Reddy, the executive engineer (irrigation, Karimnagar), Mr R Narahari, the EE special division, Karimnagar, Mr K Sudhakar, and the JD (agriculture), Mr Satyanarayana Charyulu, were present.

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