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Delays Drain Exchequer, Deny Farmers Promised Benefits

Authorities have intensified the Mission for Clean Krishna and godavari canals (MCKGC) project works in city.

The Krishna - godavari canal system is being spruced up to enable inland waterways project to take off.

The proposed Pattiseema lift irrigation scheme may solve the irrigation needs of farmers in the Krishna delta, but it is likely to throw up new environment and ecological issues affecting agricultural production in thousands of acres en route, damaging the delicate biodiversity and inducing climatological changes in the uplands of West Godavari and Krishna districts.

The state government has approved Rs 75.12 crore to renovate the Godavari Left Bank Canal (GLBC) and Godavari Right Bank Canal (GRBC), which were constructed by the British in 1909.

The godavari canal Advisory Committee (GCAC) has demanded the state government and the water resources department to release the reserved for Kumbh for irrigation.

KHAMMAM: Another inter-district row over sharing of irrigation waters is set to flare up in the state, with farmers of Khammam and West Godavari districts preparing to fight it out over the proceeds of the Betupalli reservoir in Sattupalli mandal.

The Pattiseema project will bring huge dividends to water-starved farmers of the Krishna Delta, reason both the TDP and YSR Congress have been vying with each other to claim credit for it.

More than five years after the Kakinada-Puducherry stretch of canals was declared as National Waterway-4, the completion of the project along the 1078 km stretch, covering two states and a Union Territory, is likely to take at least another decade.

Vijayawada, Jul 6 () Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today released water into the Polavaram right canal through the Pattiseema lift irrigation scheme, interlinking rivers Godavari and Krishna, in West Godavari district.

A breach to the Donkarai power canal in East Godavari district due to heavy downpour over the past fortnight caused closure of the hydropower project.

A debt-ridden man, Pilli Raju, surrendered to the police after throwing his two children into a canal in Konaseema. His daughter Karunya drowned, while his son Sandeep survived by clinging to an iron rod and swimming to safety. The boy reported the crime to the police, who later recovered Karunya’s body. Raju, who had attempted suicide twice before, has been booked under Sections 302 and 307 of the IPC.

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