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KCR launches last phase of Rs 1 trn Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation project

The project is designed to lift as much as 180 thousand million cubic feet of water from the River Godavari

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) during his swearing-in ceremony as the Chief Minister of Telangana, in Hyderabad, Thursday | Photo: PTI

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Chief minister Rao, who owed to build water projects capable of irrigating 10 million acres of land in the state, had declared Kaleshwaram as the key vehicle to realise his goal

B Dasarath Reddy Hyderabad

3 min read Last Updated : May 29 2020 | 5:32 PM IST

Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhara Rao today inaugurated Markook pumphouse, the last of the giant multi-stage Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation project and released the water to the newly built Kondapochammasagar reservoir, located in Siddipet district, about 60 km from here.

Started four years ago at an estimated cost of over Rs 1 trillion, the project features 22 pumping stations with a combined capacity of 4,680 Mw along the 250 km-odd stretch starting at Medigadda in Karimnagar district besides a chain of reservoirs, making it to be the largest of its kind in the world.

The project is designed to lift as much as

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