Chief Ministers of Telangana and Maharashtra K. Chandrasekhar Rao and Devendra Fadnavis, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at Mumbai on water projects and created history. The agreement over Godavari projects, ended decades of discord between the two States on utilisation of water in the river Godavari and its tributaries.
The agreement will pave the pay for the two States to work out mutually-agreeable specifications on the construction of Medigadda barrage, 20 km downstream of Kaleshwaram in Warangal District, as part of the Kaleshwaram Project, a component of the redesigned Pranahita-Chevella project. The barrage would allow irrigation of 16.4 lakh acres in Telangana and over 50,000 acres in some tribal areas of Maharashtra with the help of four small lift irrigation schemes.
A detailed meeting between the officials of the two States would decide the height, full reservoir level (FRL), of the barrage likely to be anywhere between 100 and 103 meters. Speaking after inking the bilateral document, Mr. Fadnavis said that they had agreed for a pact with Telangana after the neighbouring State had explained and convinced it about various possibilities on taking up the barrage.TS CM Chandrasekhar Rao said: “We are ready to take up construction of Medigadda barrage, if given a go-ahead by Maharashtra, immediately.
Deputy CM Mahmood Ali and Irrigation Minister Harish Rao and others were also present during the signing of the MOU.
