Leading IIT to partner with State on Medigadda rehabilitation design

Hyderabad: A leading Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) will serve as the principal technical partner for the rehabilitation designs of Medigadda and two other barrages of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project. It will collaborate closely with the Chief Design Organisation (CDO) of the Telangana Irrigation Department, said Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy.
He told media persons on Tuesday that “a premier IIT team will take up structural design, testing and rehabilitation planning.”
“Pre-monsoon tests have been completed, and post-monsoon verification will follow shortly. The full restoration design will be completed within one year,” Uttam Kumar Reddy said during a briefing on the project’s status. The Expression of Interest (EoI), floated recently by the Irrigation Department, seeks detailed designs and drawings for rehabilitating the three barrages.