KCR held a 5 hour meeting with retired engineers yesterday and discussed about the present conditions and his plan for irrigation in his Telangana. Reiterating that Irrigation is his Govt’s top priority, KCR conveyed the group in the meeting at Telangana Bhavan that he would waste no time in fastening to Palamuru–Ranga Reddy lift irrigation scheme which has the potential to create 10-lakh acre ayacut in Mahabubnagar, Ranga Reddy and Nalgonda districts. He seems to have conveyed that he is exploring options to get ‘National Project’ status for this from Center. “Let us complete all the 26 pending projects in Telangana in two years’ time. For the completion of these projects Rs 18,000 crores will be needed and it would help ...

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