Irrigation Minister T. Harish Rao has said that the ayacut under Sriramsagar project will not be affected due to diversion of some water to Mid Manair as Singur water will supplement water to the SRSP ayacut.
Responding to a question from Congress member T. Jeevan Reddy in the Assembly here on Thursday, the Minister said that 5.5 tmc of water was already impounded in the Mid Manair project.
It would also be the source for Mission Bhagiratha scheme covering 466 habitations in Sircilla, Vemulawada and Choppadandi Assembly constituencies.
Drinking water supply would assume priority over everything yet the ayacut under the SRSP would not suffer as Singur with 29.5 tmc inflows would supplement the SRSP ayacut, he clarified.
Completed
The Minister however took a dig at the Congress member for not appreciating the completion of Mid Manair Reservoir project that was started in 1993 but being completed in 2017. While the Congress government which called tenders for the project in 2006 under Jalayagnam spent only ₹106 crore, TRS government in three-and-a-half years spent ₹463 crore and impounded 5.5 tmc of water so far.
The gates for the reservoir would be installed in a couple of months and all other allied works would be completed by March 2018 to irrigate an ayacut of 2 lakh acres under its canal systems covering Manakondur, Karimnagar, Choppadandi, Husnabad, Siddipet, Jangaon, Station Ghanpur and Sircilla constituencies.
The MMR would be an important balancing reservoir for Kaleshwaram project too, he said.
e-NAM facility
e-NAM facility will be extended to 14 more Agricultural Market Committees in addition to the 44 committees where it is being implemented, said Marketing Minister T.Harish Rao.
Though Nizamabad AMC is leading in the country in implementation, eNAM could not be fully implemented in other markets because of speed issues with the Server. The matter was reported to Union Minister Radha Mohan Singh and he assured that e-NAM version 2 would be launched soon to improve speed of transactions in the markets.
Replying to a question, he said e-NAM facility was not yet extended to cotton because of technical issues with the network.
Dairy Plant
Animal Husbandry Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav disclosed that a new dairy plant with eight lakh litres capacity per day wuld be set up in the place of 4.5 lakh litre plant at Lalapet in Hyderabad.
The government was giving an incentive of ₹4 per litre to other dairy farmers on par with Vijaya Dairy and it would benefit 2.17 lakh dairy farmers and it would cost ₹83 crore to the exchequer.
Vijaya Dairy outlets would be set up across the State, tourist and religious places to strengthen Vijaya Dairy.