Three Pump Houses Of Sitarama Project To Be Launched On August 15

Minister for Irrigation Uttam Kumar Reddy today announced that Chief Minister Revanth Reddy would switch on three pumphouses of the Sitarama Lift Irrigation Project in Bhadradri-Kothagudem district on August 15.

Speaking to the media at Jalasouda, 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 that the BRS leaders had indulged in large scale corruption in the name of redesign of the projects.

"After Rs 1.81 lakh crore being spent in ten years, water was not given to even a single new acre in Telangana. The BRS government spent Rs 7,436 crore in the erstwhile Khammam district, but did not provide water to a single acre," Reddy said.

"In the past, the Congress government had spent Rs 2,000 crore on Rajiv and Indira Sagar. If the BRS government had spent Rs 1,500 crore more, the two projects would have been completed. But the BRS government did not undertake those pending projects, and instead took up the Sitarama project, for commissions. And due to the negligence of the BRS government in even that, the cost of the Sitarama project increased, and only 39% of the works were completed during the BRS regime. The Congress government has spent Rs 500 crore on the Sitarama project till now after coming to power," Reddy claimed.