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more-inTelangana government aims to provide irrigation to 15 to 20 lakh acres of additional ayacut in 2018 through the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme. Further, efforts will be made to fill 46,000 tanks with 25 lakh acres ayacut, Mr.
Rao said. Against the 21 lakh acres ayacut covered between 1956 and 2014 through various major and medium irrigation projects, of which actual irrigation was given only for 14 to 15 lakh acres, the Telangana government during its three to four years of rule, has provided irrigation to 12 lakh acres, Mr.
Harish Rao asserted. Congress faultedLambasting the Congress for attempting to hinder Kaleshwaram project, he accused that the Pranahitha-Chevella project was announced to clear the hurdles for Pothireddypadu and Pulichintala projects. Besides providing assured irrigation to 37 lakh acres of new ayacut in 13 districts, the project will stabilise the ayacut under existing projects such as Sriramsagar, Nizamsagar, Singur and Kaddam in six more districts..