Welcoming the government decision to draw water from the KLIS sources to meet the drinking water needs in Karimnagar villages, V Prakash Rao, former chairman, Telangana Water Resources Development Corporation, said the real importance of Kaleshwaram was known in meeting such emergencies.
He praised KCR the former CM for his future out look.
Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy must realize that the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme was the only dependable source for a major part of the State, he said.
Revanth Reddy must take steps to ensure that the lift operation from Medigadda barrage is resumed at least by the next Yasangi season by completing the project rehabilitation task at the earliest.
When the NDSA wanted the barrages of KLIP to be emptied to facilitate end-to-end investigation of the structures, the water should have been lifted to the reservoirs upstream instead of letting them flow down to the sea.
Such a measure would have given an additional advantage to the State, wherein many projects, including Mid Maniar, were on the verge of going empty, he said.
