Late engineer’s birthday celebrated as Irrigation DayThe role of late irrigation engineer R. Vidyasagar Rao in educating people during the movement for statehood to Telangana on the grave injustice done to the region in sharing of river waters was invaluable, Minister for Energy G. Jagadish Reddy said on Saturday. The busts were unveiled commemorating the late engineer on his birthday, November 14, which the State Government had declared and has been officially celebrating as Telangana Irrigation Day. Numbers related to flows and volume were on his finger tips and he would reel out figures of water denied to Telangana in the two major river basins by-heart. Late Vidaysagar Rao stood by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, first as a strong ideologue of Telangana during the statehood movement, and later as Advisor to Government on Irrigation. Principal Secretary (Irrigation) Rajath Kumar, several officials/engineers of the department, several retired engineers attended the event.

Source: The Hindu November 16, 2020 18:00 UTC