Ensure water to tail end lands: CM

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has instructed the Water Resources Department Officials to ensure that water is supplied to the lands under the irrigation projects for another 10 days so that the crops would not dry.

The Chief Minister said that farmers from Suryapet district were complaining that tail end lands are not getting water and hence the officials should ensure that water is supplied to the tail end lands and not even a single acre should be dried up due to lack of water.

He instructed Engineer in Chief B Shankar over phone to supply Kaleswaram water to tail end lands in Suryapet district under the jurisdiction of Lower Maner Dam to DBM-71. (INN)