In a status report issued on the 28 irrigation projects during the fifth round of the Janmabhoomi-Maavuru programme, the government said five of the 28 projects had been completed and even inaugurated, eight more were ready to be inaugurated and the remaining 15 were at various stages of completion by the end of the financial year. The State government has earmarked ₹13,896 crore for the completion of these 28 projects that would create an additional ayacut of 4,87,628 acres and stabilise the irrigation in 20,10,381 acres already under irrigation. The five projects that had been inaugurated are the Purushottapatnam Lift Irrigation Scheme, the anicut across the Sarada river near Kasimkota village in Visakhapatnam district, the Muchchumarri Lift Irrigation Scheme, the Gandikota Chitravathi Balancing Reservoir Lift Irrigation Scheme in Kadapa and the Siddhapur Lift Irrigation Scheme in Kurnool district. There are another 16 projects at various stages of completion. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and Water Resources Minister Devineni Umamaheswara Rao are reviewing the progress of these projects once a week.

Source: The Hindu January 23, 2018 01:41 UTC