Centre heaps praise on Mission Kakatiya

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Hyderabad: Days after the BJP working president JP Nadda berated Mission Kakatiya programme in the State, two Union ministries – Jal Shakti, and Rural Development – along with Niti Aayog, citing Mission Kakatiya as a case study, declared Telangana as a top performer in the country for source augmentation and restoration of water bodies.

In their Composite Water Management Index (CWMI) report, the Central ministries and Niti Aayog further said Telangana was a top performer in areas irrigated by restored water bodies. The only other States that found a high rank in this category were Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh.

 

The report made it clear that Mission Kakatiya programme is a ‘great example’ of restoring minor irrigation structures and sources to improve water availability and accessibility for small and medium farmers. Local water bodies such as lakes and ponds can act as important water resources for irrigating small farmlands through minor irrigation infrastructure, the report said.

This is not the first time that Mission Kakatiya has come in for praise by Niti Aayog. It may be recalled that it had previously recommended a Rs 5,000 crore grant from the Centre for the programme. However, the Centre did not follow this recommendation.

Minor irrigation
In addition to being a ‘great example’ of bringing to bear small irrigation sources and making them useful for agriculture, Mission Kakatiya through restoration of water bodies, made it possible to use 265 tmcft of water allocated for minor irrigation under the Godavari and Krishna river basins, the report said.

Former Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao, reacting to the CWMI report, congratulated officials, engineers, elected representatives and people who joined hands to make Mission Kakatiya a success. In a tweet, Harish Rao said Mission Kakatiya had already achieved national and international recognition. “The strides Telangana is making under the directions of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao is a model for the rest of the country. The State should achieve more successes in such programmes drawing inspiration from Mission Kakatiya,” he said.

Incidentally, this amount of water put to use for irrigation, is 1.4 times the 215 tmcft of water that the Srisailam dam can hold when it is full. To reach Mission Kakatiya capacity to hold water, a little more than the combined storage capacities of Jurala reservoir as well that of Narayanpur dam in Karnataka will need to be added to the water Srisailam reservoir can hold.

Water storage
The CWMI report released in New Delhi on Friday, said Mission Kakatiya builds on the concept of harnessing benefits of tank irrigation with the aim of restoring over 46,000 tanks across Telangana. The programme involves aspects of enhancing minor irrigation structures, increasing command area, and community-based irrigation.

“The initiative has helped increase the water storage capacity of water bodies and enhance on-farm moisture retention capacity in the region, apart from improving access and availability of water for irrigation in case of small and medium farmers,” the report said.

Despite this being the case, the programme has come repeatedly under fire from the BJP and Congress in the State.

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This is not the first time that Mission Kakatiya has come in for praise by Niti Aayog. It may be recalled that it had previously recommended a Rs 5,000 crore grant from the Centre for the programme. However, the Centre did not follow this recommendation.

Also zero money for kaaleshwaram.

ivi saalu TRS ki next time BJP meeda attack seyyataaniki 

[lovemystate]

most south indian states are generally top performers in most administration..thats why central taxes them to death and moves money to up, bihar and now guj

[Aryaa]

Kcr daggara hyd money lot undi. He can do all these 

 

 

[kothavani]

Jai harish anna jai kcr 🤣

[snoww]

4 minutes ago, Aryaa said:

Kcr daggara hyd money lot undi. He can do all these 

 

 

Hyderabad daggara always money vundi. But it was hardly spent on TG districts before. 

[kothavani]

4 minutes ago, Aryaa said:

Kcr daggara hyd money lot undi. He can do all these 

 

 

First year emo mission kakatiya commision anaru, bhageeratha waste anaru , appropriate agencies appreciate chesthe baagaga dabbulu unayi, Edo okati clarity undali bhaiyya

[Aryaa]

30 minutes ago, snoww said:

Hyderabad daggara always money vundi. But it was hardly spent on TG districts before. 

Avunu vaa kalisi unnapudu hyd revenue was for 25 districts.  Now 12 or 11. So makes diff. But make sure hyd was build as capital of AP not just tg. So it’s debatable subject. CBN asshol did concentrate just on hyd and this is result