hyderabad
Engineers of the Water Resources department of Maharashtra downed the shutters of Babli Barrage across the river Godavari, located near upstream of Sriramsagar Project in Telangana, on Sunday morning in the presence of engineers from the Central Water Commission and those of Telangana, after keeping the gates open for 120 days from July 1.
All 14 gates of the barrage are lifted/opened every year on July 1 following a Supreme Court judgment of 2013 to ensure sufficient inflows of river waters downstream and are closed on October 29. They would be opened again on March 1 morning and closed in the evening for the purpose of meeting drinking water needs downstream.
