The stage is all set for the inauguration of world's largest lift irrigation scheme Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation project across the Goadavari river in Telangana. Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project will be inaugurated on June 21 by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandra Shekar Rao.
The inauguration will take place today and along with Telangana Governor E S L Narasimhan, Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis and Andhra CM Jaganmohan Reddy have also been invited to the ceremony. Termed as the biggest achievement by India's youngest state, the project has been designed to irrigate 45 lakh acres of land for two crops in a year besides meeting the drinking water requirement of 70% of the state.
Here's all you need to know about the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation project:
Officials say that the Rs 80,000 crore Kaleshwaram project is a major step towards the goal of 'Bangaru Telangana' (Golden Telangana), which was promised by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government by bringing an area of one crore acres, under irrigation.
Speaking to ANI, Reddy said, "MEIL has successfully engineered the world's biggest pumping scheme in India. To achieve that, we used world-class technology involving the best agencies that have delivered quality."
The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation (KLIP) Project would cater irrigation water to 37.08 lakh acres of land; another 18.82 lakh acres of command area will be stabilized with it. The project requires 7152 MW of electricity to pump 3 TMCs of water daily.
In the first phase, 4992 MWs of electricity is being used for pumping 2 TMCs of water.
A total of 43 machines are being established for Medigadda, Annaram, and Sundilla Pump Houses, each having 40 MWs capacity. These three pump houses consume nearly 1720 MWs of electricity.
The underground pump house in the package-8 will have 7 units, out of which 5 machines are ready to pump 2 TMCs of water per day.
Each one of these machines is having the world's biggest pumping machines with a capacity of 139 MWs.
This underground pump house itself would consume 973 MWs of electricity.
This huge electrical infrastructure has been established for providing drinking water and irrigation purposes in the world.
(Inputs from Agencies)
