Telangana CM Revanth Reddy meets Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi
The Chief Minister requested the Union Home Minister to allocate more IPS officers to Telangana and stressed about the settlement of pending dues from Andhra Pradesh.
Telangana CM A Revanth Reddy & Union Home Minister Amit Shah (IANS)
NEW DELHI: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the national capital on Thursday and discussed several issues of Telangana.
The Chief Minister requested the Union Home Minister to allocate more IPS officers to Telangana and stressed about the settlement of pending dues from Andhra Pradesh.
CM Revanth Reddy also called upon other Union Ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat at the Shram Shakti Bhawan.
He presented the proposal to Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat to give national to the 'Palamuru-Rangareddy lift irrigation scheme'.
"We represented to the central water resources minister to consider the Palamuru-Rangareddy lift irrigation scheme in Telangana as a national project and to give central funding for it. The ministers responded by saying that we don't have anything like a national project status now but considering on the basis of our representation, that this is a droughted district and that this is a fluoride-prone area, we will try and accommodate in some other scheme and give funding for this Palamuru-Rangareddy lift irrigation scheme," said Telangana MLA Uttam Kumar Redd, while speaking to the media.
The Palamuru-Rangareddy lift irrigation scheme was inaugurated in the previous year by the then Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao at Narlapur in Nagarkurnool district.
Palamuru-Ranga Reddy Lift Irrigation Scheme envisaged to create irrigation potential in upland areas of Nagarkurnool, Mahabubnagar, Vikarabad, Rangareddy and Nalgonda districts for an ayacut of 10.00 lakh acres, (proposal for enhanced ayacut of 12.30 Lakh Acres is under consideration at Government)drinking water to enroute villages, GHMC and industrial use by lifting 2 TMC per day for 60 days during the flood season (1.50 TMC for PRLIS + 0.50 TMC for Dindi L.I.S) from foreshore of Srisailam Reservoir on Krishna River near at Yellur(V), Kolhapur (M) to KP Laxmidevipally(V), Kondurg (M) with 5-stage lifting and then utilizing water by gravity.
