Hyderabad, Aug.13 (NSS): Minister for Irrigation Capt N Uttam Kumar Reddy has informed that Chief Minister Revanth Reddy will switch on three pump houses of the Sitarama Lift Irrigation Project in Bhadradri-Kothagudem district on August 15.
Speaking to the media at Jalasouda here on Tuesday, Uttam Kumar Reddy along with Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy and Khammam MP Raghu Ram Reddy said that the Sitarama project would be completed by August 15, 2026 and would bring a significant transformation to the agricultural landscape of Telangana, providing a reliable source of water for irrigation to nearly 6 lakh acres in the days to come.
The Minister alleged that the previous BRS government had completely destroyed the irrigation sector and the BRS leaders had indulged in large scale corruption in the name of redesign of the projects.
“After spending Rs.1.81 lakh crores in ten years, water was not given to a single new acre in Telangana. The BRS government had spent Rs 7,436 crores, but didn’t not provide water to a single acre in the erstwhile Khammam district,” Uttam Kumar Reddy said.
“In the past, the Congress government had spent Rs 2,000 crores on Rajiv and Indira Sagar. If the BRS government had spent Rs.1500 crores, the two projects would have been completed. But, the BRS government did not undertake the pending projects, but took up the Sitarama project for the commissions. Moreover, due to the negligence of the BRS government, the cost of the Sitarama project increased and only 39 percent of the works were completed during the BRS regime.The Congress government has spent Rs.500 crores on the Sitarama project till now after coming to power,” Uttam disclosed.
