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Rs.500 cr. for Nizamsagar modernisation: YSR

Rythu bidda: Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy being honoured with a wooden plough at a public meeting organised on the occasion of the inauguration of the Alisagar lift irrigation scheme at Janakampet in Nizamabad district on Sunday.

JANAKAMPET (NIZAMABAD Dt.): Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy assured the farming community under the Nizamsagar project ayacut that the project’s modernisation will be undertaken with an estimated outlay of Rs. 500 crore and tenders will be called for the work by March next.

The proposed modernisation works would be completed in four years. Similarly, the inter-State Lendi project will also become operational soon to irrigate 22,000 acres of ayacut in the district as his Government had already handed over its share of expenditure to Maharashtra.

Dedicating the Alisagar lift irrigation scheme, the first project completed under his ambitious Jalayagnam in Telangana, here on Sunday, the Chief Minister said an additional 1.04 lakh acres would be irrigated in the district by completing the Argul Rajaram Gutpa and the Choutupally Hanumantha Reddy lift schemes in the next couple of months.

Thanking engineers and technocrats for completing the Alisagar more or less in the set time limit, he said: “My life has got a meaning as I could keep the word made to the people. With this, we have showed that our Government does not make mere promises, but does something fruitful.” Reiterating that Jalayagnam would be carried out whoever comes in the way and whatever problems were created against it, he said it was Telangana which would be benefited much under this “mission”. Of the one lakh acres proposed to be brought under irrigation through the Jalayagnam, 53 lakh acres would be in Telangana itself, he said.

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