N. Uttam Kumar Reddy | PHOTO CREDIT: NAGARA GOPAL
Hyderabad
The team of the professional team is at work in the Singur Dam in the Sangareddy District to recommend urgent security measures to prevent accidents, including spill leaks and arrests of the dive damage, N. Uttam Kumar Reddy.
He ordered the engineers of the irrigation department to place sand bags and further strengthening whenever necessary, because the monsoon was active and the project was given a tide. He told the authorities for all dams, reservoirs, barric and other water bodies to carefully monitor their condition, and emphasized that there should be no negligence regarding the perception of security.
At the inspection meeting held here on Friday, the Minister informed engineers and officials of the ministry that the state government had received a detailed study from Iit-KharaGpur on the effect of Polavaram in Andhra Pradesh on Chhattisgarh, as well as for the Sammakka Sagar project (Thupakulagudem) in Telangana.
The Sammakka Sagar project, located across the Godavari River near the village of Thupakulagudem in Eturnagaram Mandal in the Mulug district, is a strategic part of the telangana border mission to strengthen the irrigation equipment, ensure water safety and support agricultural sustainability, especially in semiandid and tribal regions.
Night by Chhattisgarh
According to the IIT-Kharagpur study, the water level in Sagar Barrage during a high flood of 102,000 cumec (36 02 089 CUSECS), considered a 500-year-old flood, reaches the HFL flood (high flood) 93 meters in Virgin. This would result in a immersion of approximately 10.9 square kilometers in Koturur, Tarlagud, Gangarama, Kambball and Sitangararam village of the Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh, covering agricultural, forest and government land.
Without fire, the water level under the same flood conditions would be 90.87 meters of HFL and dipped around 10.5 km2 in the same area. Comparative analysis shows that the construction of fire increased immersion by 0.4 square kilometers or about 40 hectares in Chhattisgarh.
The Minister said that the state government will follow to obtain the required night (without a certificate of objection) from the Government of Chhattisgarh for the Sammakka Sagar project. The project was conceived to stabilize 16.4 lakh acres of irrigated Ayacut within the nineral lift scheme and other existing systems, depositing and regulating 6.94 TM of water for multipurpose use. The construction of fire began in 2017 and was originally scheduled for completion in 2022, but progress was delayed for various reasons.
Published – 8. August 2025 06:27
