Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy said that the Congress party’s stand on the previous BRS government’s much-touted Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP) over its “lack of viability, lacunae in design and construction”, has been vindicated with the sinking of piers of the Medigadda barrage on October 21 this year, rendering the barrage inoperative at present.
A judicial inquiry will be ordered soon to probe the lapses in the KLIP constructed by the previous BRS regime by high cost borrowings as announced by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy in the State Legislative Council recently, he said, while reviewing the Medigadda fiasco at the L&T camp office near the barrage in Jayashankar Bhupalpally district on Friday.
Engineer-in-Chief (ENC) C. Muralidhar Rao gave a PowerPoint presentation on chronology of events on sinking of piers 18, 19, 20 and 21 of Medigadda barrage at the meeting.
