The Varikapudisela Lift Irrigation Scheme located at Varikapudivagu (canal) has got the required clearances from the Standing Committee of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) with stipulated conditions.
The Varikapudisela Lift Irrigation Scheme is designed to lift 1.547 tmc ft of water from Varikapudivagu on the foreshore of the Nagarjunasagar Reservoir by constructing a pump house on its right bank near Gangalakunta in Veldurthy mandal of Palnadu district. This project is a decades-old dream of the people of Planadu.
Collector Siva Sankar Lotheti told The Hindu on June 20 (Tuesday) that the required clearances had been received.