As many as 138 projects of State Water Resources department have been completed so far for providing irrigation facilities to an additional 36,531 hectares of agricultural land in the district.
This was informed in a meeting chaired by District Collector Dr Basavraju S to review irrigational capacity created in the district in 2012-13 and those created and completed during 2013-14. It was also informed in the meeting that 10,742 hectares of land is currently irrigated in Berla region of the district coming under Tandula Water Resources Division. The Collector offered directives to utilise the remaining water in the reservoirs for irrigating the Rabi season crops after consulting the Water Consumers Committee and farmers. He also directed that the pending cases of land acquisition concerning development of new reservoirs be taken up for redressal by all SDOs with the Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM).