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The Telugu Ganga project is a joint water supply scheme implemented in India in 1980s by the then Andhra Pradesh chief minister Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao and Tamil Nadu chief minister Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran to provide drinking water to Chennai City in Tamil Nadu.
Kandeleru Dam is an irrigation project built on the Kandaleru River in Rapur Mandal, Nellore district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. [1] The project is part of the Telugu Ganga project that supplies drinking water to Chennai city from the Srisailam reservoir on Krishna River. Kandaleru reservoir is mainly fed by a link canal from ...
Telangana state claims that Srisailam project is not an irrigation project and was designed for electricity generation; there are allocations of only 15TMC for Chennai drinking water to be taken thru Pothireddypadu; but in year 2020, Andhra Pradesh(AP) govt diverted 179TMC of water from Krishna river to Rayalaseema region of AP which is in ...
This canal also supplies water to Telugu Ganga project which supplies Krishna river water to Chennai city for its drinking purpose. [10] This main canal by feeding water to K. C. Canal, Srisailam right bank canal, Telugu Ganga canal and Galeru Nagari canal irrigates vast area in Kurnool, Kadapa, Chittoor and Nellore districts.
As part of the Telugu Ganga Project in the early 1960s for solving the Chennai water problem, the Central Government had announced that annually 15 TMC (thousand million cubic feet) of water from the perennial Krishna river would be brought to Madras, with the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Maharashtra contributing 5 TMC each from ...
Following this, an accord between Andhra Pradesh Government and Tamil Nadu Government was signed for Telugu Ganga project on 18 April 1983 for drawing 15 TMC of Krishna water to Chennai City from Sri Sailam Reservoir to be conveyed through Somaseela and Kandaleru Reservoirs and ultimately a net quantity of 12 TMC (after loss of 3 TMC en route ...
Alternate water supply from Srisailam reservoir is provided via Srisailam right main canal constructed under Telugu Ganga project.Also water can be pumped and fed to K.C. Canal from the recently commissioned Muchumarri lift or Handri-Neeva lift canal pump house from the Srisailam reservoir when its water level (up to 798 ft msl) is below the minimum drawdown level of Pothireddypadu head ...
In recognition of his capabilities, he was later appointed as "Officer on special duty " during the period 1984 to 1990, for executing the Telugu Ganga project.He also served as 'Adviser on irrigation projects' to government of Andhra Pradesh (1989), environmental appraisal committee member (1990 – 92) of Government of India, ‘Krishna, Godavari and Penna delta's drainage board' chairman ...