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PREAMBLE The Nagarjunasagar Project is one of the major multipurpose River Valley Projects in Andhra Pradesh, built across River Krishna at Nandikonda(v), Pedavoora(m) of Nalgonda Dt., to provide irrigation facilities to about 0.90 Million Hectares of parched lands and also to develop seasonal power of 960 Mega Watts. The project comprises of a dam with two main canals taking off, one on either side, namely N.S.Left Main Canal and N.S.Right Main Canal. N.S. LEFT MAIN CANAL The N.S.Left Main Canal, named as Lal Bahadur Canal, takes off from the foreshore of the Reservoir through an independent head regulator runs for a length of 178 Kms. and extends as 21st Main Branch Canal for a length of 117 Kms. This contour canal crosses major rivers, Halia, Musi and Munneru by means of aqueducts and also passes through deepcuts. It is designed for the carrying capacity of 11,000 cusecs to irrigate 4.20 Lakhs Hectares in Nalgonda, Khammam, Krishna and West Godavari Districts utilizing 132 TMC of water allocated by Krishna Waters Distribution Tribunal. The Palair reservoir, which is a Medium Irrigation Project at Palair(V) in Kusumanchi(M), is being utilized as balancing reservoir for N.S. Left Main Canal. The capacity of this reservoir is 2.55 TMC. |
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| CROPPING PATTERN The total contemplated area of 4.20 Lakh hectares under N.S.Left Canal is divided into 21 blocks with 11 sub-blocks in Block no.21. All these blocks and sub-blocks are bounded by natural streams and valleys. The ayacut in Zone.I, comprising Blocks 1 to 15 (from N.S.Reservoir to Palair river), is localized for Khariff Wet crops. The ayacut in Zone.II, comprising Blocks 16 to 20 and 21/1 to 21/7 (from Paleru to Kattaleru river) is localized for mixed cropping pattern of Khariff wet and Rabi I.D. and that in Zone.III, comprising Blocks 21/8 to 21/11 (from Kattaleru to Tammileru river) is localized exclusively for Rabi I.D. crops. |
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