Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy will be dedicating the Owk tunnel project in Nandyal district to the people of Andhra Pradesh on November 30 (Thursday). It is an integral component of the Galeru Nagari Sujala Sravanthi (GNSS) project.
The project will have a discharge capacity of 2 tmc ft per day, and it will address the perennial drought situations in the Rayalaseema region.
“The project includes 10,000 cusecs of water through the right tube (T-II) and the existing 10,000 cusecs through the diversion tunnels of the left tube, totalling to 20,000 cusecs,” Shashibhushan Kumar, Principal Secretary to Government, Water Resources Department, told The Hindu on November 29.