Hyderabad: The Singur project in Medak, about 80 km from Hyderabad, which supplies drinking water to the twin cities, is seeing many visitors. “Singur is full to the brim after a long time thanks to the good rains. This summer it was like a playground. People from not only Medak but also from neighbouring districts are spending weekends here,” TRS Sangareddy MLA Chinta Prabhakar told Deccan Chronicle.
Some of the most visited irrigation projects include Singur, Manjeera, Ghanpur, Pocharam (all in Medak district), Jurala near Gadwal, Koilasagar near Deverakadra (Mahbubnagar), Nagarjuna-sagar, Aljapur waterfalls (74 km from Nalgonda town), Musi project, Nizamsagar, Alisagar, Sriramsagar project (Nizamabad), Lower Manair and Mid Manair projects (Karimnagar).
There are 30-odd irrigation projects in the state. Some of them are full to brim after a long gap. The famed Osmansagar (Gandipet) received a lot of water as did neighbouring Himayatsagar, on the city outskirts in Ranga Reddy district. Once the main source of drinking water for the twin cities, both the water bodies were almost dry due to encroachments in the catchment areas.
People are also thronging to the little known Ajjalapur waterfalls. Sri Bugga Lakshmi Narasim-ha Swamy temple is located nearby. “We have about 50 irrigation projects across the state. Out of 43,800 tanks, 14,650 are full and overflowing,” said Sridhar Deshpande, officer on special duty to irrigation minister T. Harish Rao.
