History of sorts was made on Tuesday as Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao inaugurated Bhakta Ramadas lift irrigation project in the drought prone Khammam district on Tuesday. What made the event stand out was that perhaps for the first time an irrigation project was completed two months ahead of schedule saving a lot of money. The project for which the Chief Minister had laid the foundation in February last year and the developers Megha Engineering completed it in a record 11 months.
The project across river Krishna built at a cost of Rs 336 crore will irrigate 60000 acres in six mandals of Palair in Khammam district.
So far this area did not have any irrigation source and the farming was completely dependent on rain.
The Chief Minister who drove In a bus from Hyderabad inaugurated the project at eragadda thanda in kusumanchi mandal. later he offered prayers to river Krishna water released from the lift irrigation project.
later addressing a public meeting the Chief Minister lauded the engineers for completing the project ahead of schedule and reiterated his government’s commitment to bring 1 crore acre of land under irrigation in the state.
The project was named after saint poet Bhakta Ramdas and it was inaugurated on his birth anniversary.