The Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) in the Central Water Commission (CWC) on Friday gave clearance to Gudem Lift Irrigation Scheme in Mancherial district to supplement water to the tail-end ayacut of Kaddam Narayana Reddy project and Modikunta Vagu medium irrigation project in Mulugu district.
Chaired by Secretary in the Ministry of Jal Shakti Pankaj Kumar, the meeting was attended by Special Secretary in the Department of Water Resources Debashree Mukherjee, CWC Chairman Kushvinder Vohra, Chief Engineers concerned in CWC and officers in the related Central Government departments besides authorities from Telangana.
Special Chief Secretary (Irrigation) Rajat Kumar, Engineers-in-Chief C. Muralidhar and B. Hariram, Officer on Special Duty to Chief Minister Sridhar Rao Deshpande and Chief Engineers G. Srinivas Reddy (Mancherial) and B. Vijaya Bhaskar Rao (Mulugu) attended the meeting and presented information sought by TAC for getting the clearance for two projects.
