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Projects proposed to be declared as Nation Projects.
Sl. Name of Project Estimate Rs.
.No.
In Crores
1 Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Pranahita
Chevella Sujala Sravanthi 38500.00
2 PVNR Kanthanapalli Sulala Sravanthi 10409.00
3 Sri Pada Sagar Yellam Pally WS. 3178.00
4 JCHokka Rao Devadula Lift Irrigation Scheme 8789.40
5 Mahatma Jyothi Rao Phule Dummagudam
NS Tail Pond 19521.00
6 Indira Sagar Polavaram Project 5738.00
7 Babu Jagjeevan Rao Uttara Andhra
Sujala Sravanthi 7214.00
Total 93349.40
12.0 DISTRICT WISE ANALYSIS OF IRRIGA TION DEVELOPMENT ON
COMPLE
TION OF JALAYAGNAM
On completion of projects, the lowest irrigation development will be again only in
Anantapur District (i.e.,) only 7.475 lakhs acres which works are to 22.37% over cultivable
area of 33.41 lakh acres. By virtue of its disadvantage position geographically, climatologically
and also due to ill feelings developed on account of inter state water disputes, Anantapur
district is eagerly waiting for this minimum development atleast in Samaikyandhra.
At a time when the demand for separate states is increasing in different regions of
the country the perennially drought prone Anantapur district is an example of being a
victim of inter-state water disputes, a problem that is bound to get complicated further
with more divisions of geographical areas.
“Most of the cultivable land in the district could have enjoyed irrigation facility,
had the district been part of Karnataka as almost all the rivers which have a course in the
district originate in Karnataka” an opinion being expressed by some experts, seeing the
pathetic conditions of the District. Besides, the lone dependable irrigation source
Tungabhadra Right High Level Canal (RBHLC) also has its origin in the Karnataka as the interstate
project of Tungabhadra reservoir. As a result most of its traditional irrigation system
are facing extinction due to lack of water flow over the years.
Karnataka has not left single rivulet flowing into Anantapur district without creating
an obstruction in the form of Anicuts, Barrages, Minor and Medium Irrigation Projects and
diversion channels in the Pennar Basin.
Drying of Pennar River in the district is attributed to this. Upper Pennar Project, a
medium irrigation project, has a parched bed for decades whose storage capacity in only 1.8
TMCft.
As per the planning commission’s norms an area with less than 30% irrigation
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