Hyderabad
Sri Ram Sagar Project (SRSP) has decided to provide water for rabi crops in Ayacut Zone-1 and Zone-2 above Lower Manair Dam (LMD) from Wednesday, December 25. Simultaneous water in Kakatiya main canal and Lakshmi main canal.
Superintending Engineer of Irrigation Circle Pochampad (SRSP) T. According to Srinivasa Rao Gupta, Ayacut under Zone-1 (D5 to D53) will be given water for 7 days and Zone-2 (D54 to D94) for 8 days. Spell from December 25th to April 8th. Zone-II Ayacut will be watered first, followed by Zone-I.
He asked the farmers to use the water properly without wasting it. He asked the canal side farmers tapping water with the help of pump sets to draw only the required amount of water for their crops as excessive rainfall in the planned Ayacut especially in the tail areas deprived the farmers of water. Deprives.
The two areas include around 4.43 lakh acres of land in Nizamabad, Jagatial, Peddapally and Karimnagar under the Kakatiya and Lakshmi canals. It is estimated that around 64 TMC feet of water will be required to meet the demand of Ayacut including drinking requirements (Mission Bhagirath).
As of Tuesday, SRSP has 80.05 TMC feet of water with a level of 1090.90 feet, while the full reservoir level (FRL) is 1091 feet, while only 69.57 TMC feet of water was available on the same day last year. About 1,530 cusecs of water was drawn for Ayacut under Alisagar and Gutfa Lift Irrigation Scheme and Mission Bhagirath requirement.
About 282.32 TMC feet of water has flowed from the project till June 1 this year and about 209.51 TMC feet of water has been released downstream as surplus and for irrigation (Kharif) and drinking needs. In the hydropower year, about 44.4 million units of hydropower were also produced from the 36MW (4x9MW) capacity hydropower plant in the project.
published – Dec 24, 2024 07:24 pm IST