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Lift Irrigation Scheme, Kaleshwaram LIft Irrigation Project, Telangana Lift Irrigation Project

1. TMC ft : One thousand million cubic feet commonly used in India in reference to volume of water in a reservoir or river. Cusecs : It is a measure of flow rate (cubic feet per second). Cumecs : a cubic meter per second, as a unit of rate of flow of water. Spill Way : a passage for surplus water from a dam. Catchment area : a natural drainage structure in which water is collected or the area from which rainfall flows into a river, lake, or reservoir. Surge pool : A surge pool is a standpipe or storage reservoir at the downstream end of a closed dam , barrage pipe to absorb sudden rises of pressure , as well as to quickly provide extra water during a brief drop in pressure. Delivery cistern : is a waterproof holder for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater. Command Area : The area which can be irrigated from a scheme and is fit for cultivation. Barrage : an artificial barrier across a river or estuary to prevent flooding, aid irrigation or navigation, or to generate electricity. Dam : A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of water or underground streams. (Multi purpose) Word list R A J U A D E P U

2. Indian River Systems

3. GODAVARI The total length of Godavari is 1465 kms . From it origin to Narasapuram in West Godavari. Godavari enters into Telangana in Nizamabad district at Kandakurthy where Manjira , Haridra rivers join Godavari and form Triveni Sangamam . About 12 km (7.5 mi) after entering Telangana, it merges with the back waters of the Sriram Sagar Dam.

4. Godavari and its catchment area

5. PATTERN OF DRAINAGE

6. The catchment area is in 7 states

7. Major Tributaries of Godavari

8. Lift Irrigation Projects in Telugu States Building Heavy lift irrigation projects were started in Telugu states from 2000. Handrineeva Sujala Sravanthi – Krishna (back waters of Srisailam Reservoir at Malyala village) Sri Vidhyasagar Rao Dindi Lift Irrigation Scheme : on Dindi tributary of Krishna river. Mahatma Gandhi Kalwakurthy Ethipothala Scheme - Krishna ( in Mahbubnagar district in Telangana) Jawahar Nettempadu - Krishna (Foreshore of Priyadarshini Jurala Project near upperu village Jogulamba Gadwal district) J Chokkarao Devadula Ettipothala Padhakam – Godavari ( near Gangaram (V), Eturunagaram (M), Warangal District ) Purushoththama Patnam Lift Irrigation Scheme – Godavari ( Purushothapatnam Village in Seethanagaram (M), East Godavari District) Pattiseema – Godavari, Krishna ( Inter linkage lift of Polavaram Project with Krishna river)

9. Pattiseema Pattiseema Lift Irrigation Project is a river inter linking project near Polavaram which connects Godavari River to Krishna river.

10. Handri neeva Sujala Sravanthi Handrineeva SS ( Handri-Neeva Sujala Sravanthi project is the longest water canal (569 km length ) project in Rayalaseema . The project is conceived to provide irrigation facilities and reliable drinking water supply, by drawing flood waters from the Srisailam reservoir . The first phase commences at Malyala , Nandikotukur , kurnool )

11. J Chokkarao Devadula Ettipothala Devadula (It is the second biggest of its kind in Asia . Devadula is the place in Warangal District , Telangana . Juvvadi Chokkarao ( served as MP from Karimnagar ) Devadula LIS, inter river basin transfer link to feed Godavari water to Krishna. Benefited Warangal and Nalgonda.

12. Kalwakurthy Eththipothala Kalvakurthy ( Mahatma Gandhi Kalwakurthy lift irrigation project (KLIP) is on River Krishna located in Mahboobnagar district in Telangana. It has 40 Mw of pump which is largest so far)

13. Nettempadu ( Javahar Nettempadu ) Nettempadu : The Nettempadu Scheme provide irrigation and drinking water facilities for drought prone areas of Mahabubnagar District, by lifting water from Krishna River from the foreshore of Priyadarshini Jurala Project on the right flank near Upperu (V), Dharur (M).

14. Purushoththama Patnam LIP The Purushottapatnam Lift Irrigation project (PLIP) is designed to serve the needs of East Godavari, Visakhapatnam and the other north Andhra districts. This on the Left Main Canal of the Polavaram project.

15. R Vidhyasagar Rao Dindi LIS Dindi Reservoir is a medium water reservoir across Dindi tributary of River Krishna located near Dindi , Mahabubnagar town in Telangana . It is part of Srisailam Left Bank Canal . Objective is to supply drinking water to the floride affect villages of Mahaboob Nagar, Nalgonda

16. Jalayagnam It is a water management program taken up in 2004 by the then Chief Minister of former Andhra Pradesh , Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy as an election promise to the farmers of the state to bring 8.2 million acres under irrigation in five years. He had taken a decision to build two major irrigation projects under Jalayagnam . 1) Pranahitha – Chevella (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar project) 2) Polavaram project . Y.S.R has taken required approvals from central government like Site clearance, environmental clearance, wildlife sanctuary clearance, forest clearance, technical advisory committee clearance and Central Water Commission. Finally, when he decided to execute projects in a phased manner, he died in an accident. Subsequently there were other issues like political instability, separate Telangana movement came to high intensity. Subsequent Chief Ministers failed to give priority for Jalayagnam .

17. Pranahitha-Chevella (BRALIS) This project was planned to be built with height of 152 Meters at Tummidihatti village where Wardha and Wain Ganga rivers join and form Pranahitha river. With an objective of 160 TMC water to irrigate 16.74 lakh acres of land, 30 TMC of water to Hyderabad and secunderabad and 16 TMC for industrial use. They planned to construct an inter river basin transfer link by feeding Godavari river water to Krishna river basin. Works of this project is almost restricted to link upto Medak instead of chevella . A link canal and tunnel works are alomost complete at shankar palli of Medak district. Drawback of the Tummidihatti Project In 2005, the project cost was pegged at Rs. 17,875 crore with the objective of creating irrigation potential to 12 lakh acres. Its cost went up to Rs.38,500 crore in the DPR prepared in 2008 with the extension of the project up to Chevella (RR) to irrigate 16.4 lakh acres by lifting 165 tmc ft water. The cost was revised again in 2010 to Rs. 40,300 crore . However, only works pertaining to canal network were taken up as Maharashtra strongly opposed the height of Tummidihatti barrage at 152 m as it would submerge a large area in its territory, including a wild life sanctuary. It is re-engineered as Kaleshwaram Project by shifting the venue of project from Tummidihatti to Kaleshwaram . Constructing three barrages across Godavari River namely Medigadda ( 20 kms away from Kaleshwaram ) , Annaram Barrage and Sundilla Barrage. CWC also was in doubt that the Wain Ganga and Wardha cant bring 165 TMC of flood water which is very low to the capacity of the project. If so the entire money spend on the project will be a dead investment . Assuming that if 1000 crore rupees are allocated every year , it takes 40 years to complete this project .

18. R. Vidhya Sagar Rao Ramaraju Vidyasagar Rao was a government administrator and a Telangana activist. He was the Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Water Resources. Worked in the Central Water Commission(CWC). Worked as Consultant to NABARD . Served as Resource Person, National Commission for integrated Water Resources Development Plan. Served as member of Working Group of Major, Medium Irrigation & Command Area Development Project for XII Five Year Plan. (2012–2017) He also worked as a consultant to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) at Nairobi (Kenya) and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) He wrote book namely NEELLU NIJALU which was a sensational at that time. After the formation of Telangana State, he was appointed as the Advisor on Irrigation to the Government of Telangana. He died on 29 April 2017 (aged 77)

19. WAPCOS known as Water and Power Consultancy Services (India) Limited is a consultancy organisation and public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Water Resources. WAPCOS is playing a major role in River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. LIDAR, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging , is a remote sensing method that uses light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure ranges (including height and variable distances) to the Earth. These light pulses combined with other data recorded by the airborne system generate precise, three-dimensional information about the shape of the Earth and its surface characteristi cs. Kaleshwaram LIS design

20. LIDAR data is often collected with the help of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) survey aircraft. LIDAR data supports activities such as inundation and, hydrodynamic modeling, shoreline mapping, Hydrographic surveying ( water depth).

21. LIDAR IMAGE

22. KLIS ( Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme) The project aims to utilize a total of 240 TMC. Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation constitute three projects in it. They are : Medigadda Barrage Annaram Barrage Sundilla Barrage Medigadda 195 TMC Sripada Yellampalli 20 TMC Ground Water 25 TMC

23. ACTUAL COST OF THE PROJECT

24. Salient features of KLIS It is world's largest multi-stage lift irrigation project . It is divided into 7 links and 28 packages There will be 20 Lifts , 19 pump houses , 88 pumps in the project. Among 19 Pump houses, ( mega pump 139 Mw is used in Ramadugu pump house.) The project comprises world's largest underground pumping station and an 81 km long tunnel between Yellampalli barrage and upcoming Mallanna Sagar reservoirs. It has canal network of about 1800 kms . Tunnels to a length of 203 kilometers. 20 reservoirs

25. The project consumes 13,558 mega units and it needs 4627.24 MW of power. It has 440 Kv underground substation spread across 2 acres. It is covering 500 km of 14 districts . ( Karimnagar , Rajanna Siricilla , Siddipet , Medak , Yadadri , Nalgonda , Sangareddy , Nizamabad , Jagityala , Kamareddy , Nirmal , Medchal Malkajgiri and Peddapalli districts. ) Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme aims to irrigate the 18.50,000 lakh acres of new land and stabiliz 11,18,000 acres (ha=2.47105 acres) of existing irrigated land.

26. PACKAGES

27. MEDIGADDA Bed level (meters) Pond level (meters) Gross storage (in TMC) Number of Gates 89 100 16.17 85 Medigadda Barrage is the starting point of the proposed Kaleshwaram Project Location: Medigadda (village), Mahadevpur , Jayashankar Bhupalpalli Construction began : 02 May 2016

28. BED LEVEL POND LEVEL GROSS STORAGE (TMC) NUMBER OF GATES 107 120 11.9 66 Annaram Barrage is an under construction irrigation project on Godavari River located at Annaram Village, Mahadevpur Mandal , Jayashankar Bhupalpally district in Telangana State ,

29. SUNDILLA BARRAGE Sundilla Barrage is an under construction irrigation project located at Sundilla Village, Kamanpur Mandal , Peddapalli district in Telangana State BED LEVEL POND LEVEL GROSS STORAGE (TMC) NUMBER OF GATES 118 130 5.11 74

30. Links and packages of Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation scheme

31. Rs 80,190 crore , world’s biggest. The Kaleshwaram irrigation project will create a world record when 139 MW mammoth pumps will start lifting 2 TMC ft. of water daily. The distribution of water of this project will begin from Yellampalli through gravity canals and pipelines. The water required for this will come from Medigadda Barrage through a 14.09 kilometer underground tunnel, which is longest irrigation tunnel in the world. The cavern (under ground storage) and surge pool, from where the pump would operate, also holds the world record with a capacity of holding 2 crore litres of water . Claimed to be the costliest irrigation project to be taken up by any State till date with an estimated cost of Rs. 80,190 crore . Inaugarated by KCR, Devendra Fadnavis , YS Jagan on 21 st June 2019 at 11.30 PM. Fascinating facts

32. Critisism It will be a burden to government Trial run expenditure is 8 crores . Total power cost per year goes up to 10,000 crores in future it may go upto 15000 crores . Including mission Bhagiratha the cost goes up to 50000 crores . Power production (future needs added with domestic and industrial demand) Cost per acre goes very high. User charges on people will be levied . (report submitted by Telangana government to 15th Financial Commission ) Maintenance charges becomes burden. Balancing act should be done. ( there will be waste if any thing provided freely) Siltation is going to be the major problem Storage capacity of reservoirs may decrease in future. Cropping pattern needed to be changed. Low water consuming crops should be encouraged. Rhythu Bandhu to be linked to the cropping pattern.

33. Ramadugu pumping station (largest capacity of 139 Mw)

34. From: Department of Social Studies SPR SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE 100 Ft. ROAD, HANAMKONDA Mr. Raju A. 9441412900