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Project detail:
The mandate for the planning, design, implementation of the irrigation projects rests with the I&CAD Department, Ministry of Irrigation, Government of Telangana. The Proponent for the proposed “Channaka-Korata barrage” on River Lower Penganga is “Irrigation & Command Area Development (I&CAD)” Department, Government of Telangana State. The main objective of I &CAD is creation and maintaining the irrigation potential of the State and the I&CAD shall make all efforts to plan, develop, conserve, utilize and manage the available water resources, in a judicious, equitable and sustainable manner. I&CAD has taken up the proposed Channaka-Korata barrage project is an interstate irrigaition project to benefit the drought prone ayacut of uplands of the region in Adilabad District, Telangana State.
The proposed Channaka – Korata (Rudha) barrage is a joint project between the States of Maharashtra and Telangana state on River Penganga and it is independent of the joint Lower Penganga Project, envisages construction of a barrage across River Penganga on down stream of Lower Penganga Project to irrigate an ayacut of 6677.00 ha (5463.00 ha in Telangana and 1214.00 ha for Maharashtra). Command area lies in 14 villages of three mandalsTamsi, Adilabad and Jainad in Adilabad district of Telangana state and 4 villages in Kelapur tehsil of Yavatmal district in Maharashtra state. The Gross Command Area of the project is 10442.913 Ha.
Note: please download project document attached to this project for more information.
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