Anantapur: The more than a decade old Tungabhadra... ... Live Updates: Hyderabad, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh News Today 13 December 2021

Anantapur: The more than a decade old Tungabhadra High Level Canal modernisation project launched in 2008 is yet to see the light of the day. Ever since the 2008, four governments had changed resulting in watering down of the modernisation project. Farmers are of the view that YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government should take a fresh look at the project and complete the works at least before the expiry of its present term. The reasons for more than 10-year delay include different governments taking a different view on the project, besides contractors delay and governments failure in clearing the bills for completed works and inability and helplessness of engineering personnel to continuously undertake works execution as water flows through the canal for 6 months in an year and farmers disinclination to declare crop holiday to enable contractors to complete the project on a war footing in one crop year.Read more