Telanagana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has directed release of water from Singur for the second crop covering about two lakh acres of land.

This follows a request made by T Harish Rao and Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, State Ministers, for the release of water from Singur to Nizam Sagar which will enable provide water to irrigate two lakh acres during the rabi season and also help generate power.

The Singur reservoir has 29 TMC water and its release, apart from helping provide water for irrigation in the districts of Nizamabad, Kamareddy and Medak and Andol constituency, help generate 15 MW of hydel power.

The demand for water for second crop has been a long pending desire of the farming community. With the reservoir filling up and new channels d created, it will now be fulfilled.

Through the new canals, once the 9 TMC of water is released from Singur to Nizamasagar which already has 3 TMC of water, it will have 12 TMC.

The water thus released would also fill up Ghanapuram anicut and facilitate cultivation of 30,000 acres and 40,000 acres under the Andol lift irrigation scheme.

The Chief Minister has instructed TS Genco CMD D Prabahakar Rao to start hydel power generation once the water is released from Singur, where 15 MW can be generated.

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