Congress Member of Legislative Council T. Jeevan Reddy has ridiculed Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for claiming that the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project would provide irrigation to 75 lakh to 80 lakh acres in the State. “How can the Chief Minister claim that the KLIP would irrigate 80 lakh acres when the project was designed to provide irrigation to only 18 lakh acres,” he asked. It requires some 800 tmc ft water to provide irrigation to 80 lakh acres, he said and asked how many tmc ft of water was being lifted through the Kaleshwaram project. Talking to newsmen here on Tuesday, Mr. Jeevan Reddy asked how much knowledge the CM had on the irrigation projects and the water required for the irrigation of 80 lakh acres. He also demanded that the government build the lift scheme at a cost of ₹ 8 crore to provide irrigation to 10,000 acres in Gumlapur and other villages which were lost due to the Laxmipur pump house.

Source: The Hindu December 31, 2019 14:25 UTC