BRIEF NOTE ON JEEDIPALLI – UPPER PENNAR PROJECT LIFT IRRIGATION SCHEME .

The Upper Pennar Project was constructed across Penna River near
peruru(v) Ramagiri (m) Ananthapuramu during year 1959 with an amount of 1.86 crores
to provide Irrigation facilities to an ayacut of 10,048 Acres with capacity of 1.81 TMC.

Smt. Paritala Sunitha, the then honorable Minister for price Monitoring, Consumer affairs,
Food& Civil supplies , AP Hyderabad vide their DO letter No.009/MI(F&CS)/2014, dated
05.10.2014 addressed the then Hon’ble Chief Minister of Andhrapradesh, stated that the
four mandals of Raptadu Constituency and Kambadur Mandal of Kalyanadurgam
constituency are severely drought effected due to erratic and low intensity of rainfall for
the last few decades and the ground water table in the area was drastically gone
down and the existing water levels are not catering the needs of irrigation and drinking
for live stock.

Due to construction of anicuts, barrages, minor and medium projects and

diversion channels on all streams by the Karnataka Government no single rivulet is
flowing into Upper Pennar Project. The Upper Pennar was last filled during year 2002
and since then there are no inflows in to the Project. It was also informed that to
overcome the problem the only alternative is to lift water from HNSS project to feed
Upper Pennar Project and also construction of reservoirs at somravandla palli and
puttakanuma. The total requirement for this proposals is about 3.91 TMC to stabilize the
existing ayacut of 10048 acres under UPP and also to create additional ayacut of 15000
acres.

The Villages of the Following mandals will be benefitted with this scheme.

1) Beluguppa, (2)Atmakur (3)Kambadur(4) Kanaganapalli and 5)Ramagri

Benefits of the Scheme.

 It will improve drinking water facilities to people and cattle in drought prone
area and also results in will improve the ground water recharge and bore well
recharge about 3200 No’s and storage of water will results the minimizing of
drought.
 It will greatly benefit the drought prone Ananthapuramu district where providing
the irrigation facility in the area with a limited quantity of water, will go a long
way to develop the socio economic condition of the people and will help in
eradication of the poverty.
 This will improve the availability of water for the rural and urban water supply
requirements of the area and expected to reduce drought conditions of the
area.
Government vide memo no.17250/Proj.III/A1/2014, Dated 03.01.2015 issued instructions
to examine the above issue and furnish the detailed report. In response to above
instructions an estimate for conducting S&L operation for carrying out the detailed
investigation for an amount of Rs.1.13 crores submitted to the government. Accordingly
the Government vide .G.O.Rt. No.444 dated 07.07.2015 has accorded administrative
approval for Rs.1.11 crores and estimate was technically sanctioned for an amount of
Rs.1.11 crores by this office and the work is entrusted to SRES Hyderabad with tender
premium of 2% excess over the IBM value. The agency has completed the S&L
operation work and submitted the detailed project report for Rs.1139 crores and the
same was submitted to Government for according administrative approval. Further the
Government has instructed to re-examine the proposal and constituted an expert
committee for examining the proposals indetail and to study the availability of
adequate water ,economics of overall cost of project and cost benefit analysis of the
project. Recommendations made by the expert committee are

 The committee recommends to lift 3.91 TMC of water from Jeddipalli reservoir
from the additional water to be drawn to the Jeedipalli reservoir from the off
take of HNSS Project i.e, Malyala to stabilize the ayacut under Uppe Pennar
Project and to serve new ayacut under proposed Somaravandlapalli and
Puttakanuma reservoir totaling 25000 acres in Rapthadu Constituency in
Anantapur District, as the project is located in most drought prone area.
 Irrigated dry crops has been proposed under this project.
 The proposed 3.91 TMC of water may be drawn in 90 days from the foreshore
area of Jeedipalli reservoir.
 The cost of scheme may be worked out duly considering the revised data
including GST element and as per SSR2017-18.

After reexamining the proposal and considering the suggestions made by the expert
committee constituted by the government, a final detailed project report for RS.813
crores was submitted to the government for administrative approval. Government
vide G.O.Rt.No.59 dated 24.01.2018 has accorded administrative approval for an
amount of Rs.803.966crores and the same was technically sanctioned in this office and
registered as CER.No.6CE/2018-19, Dt.19.05.2018. The work was entrusted to Megha
Enginerng Infra Structure limited Hyderabad for an agreement amount of Rs.591.571
crores with a tender premium of 4.65%. The period of completion of project is 18
months.
The total requirement of water to this proposal is 3.91 TMC as detailed
below.

1) Upper Pennar Project ---- 1.81 TMC

2) Somaravandlapalli Reservoir----1.5 TMC
3) Puttakanuma Reservoir ---0.6 TMC

It is proposed to lift the water in 90 days from Jeedipalli reservoir with 600 cusecs
per day. The scheme consists of

1) 4 Nos lifts, (for lifting water to the height of 91.51 Metres

2) 111 nos CM&CD structures
3) 2 Reserviors ,Somaravandlapalli with a capcity of 1.500 TMC and Puttakanuma
Reservoir with a capacity of0.600 TMC.

The length of the main canal is 53.452 KMs.

Present status of work:

Sl.No. Description of Item As per As per Balance

Agreement Execution
1 Excavation of canal in 53.452Km 28.555 Km 25.897 Km
length
2 Earthwork excavation for 63.80 Lakh cum 23.83 Lakh cum 39.97 Lakh cum
canal in cum
3 CM&CD works/structuress 111 Nos. 7 Nos 104 Nos
in No.
4 Concrete in cum 1,24,648 Cum 3740 Cum 120908 Cum
5 Pump houses in Nos. 4 Nos 4 Nos ----
(earthwork
Excavation is
completed)

Value of work done: 65.98 crs

Percentage of work done : 11.15 %
Government in the U.O Note no FIN01-FMU0ASD(WR1)/80/2019(Comp No 898809)
Dated 29.05.2019 Finance(FMU-WR.I) DEPARTMENT , instructed to first HALT the works
and that in respect of works grounded but expenditure is less than 25% of originally
estimated value shall be reviewed afresh. No payment will be done in this regard
before obtaining orders afresh from appropriate authorities afresh Hence, as per the
said note the work has been stopped with immediate effect. The Expert committee
constituted by the Government is reviewing this project work also. The contractor lifted
all his machinery from the site.
Now in the representation of Hon’ble MLA T. Prakash Reddy garu , it is proposed for
formation of 5 reservoirs (Devarakonda, Nookonda, Kosikonda, Thopudurthi, and
Vepacherla) within the total quantity of 65 lakh cubic meter earth work (proposed for
Puttakanuma and Somaravandlapalli) with a total capacity of 5.989 TMC, keeping the
proposed Puttakanuma and Somaravandlapalli in abeyance (226 crores for 5.989 TMC
instead of 226 crores for 2.1 TMC).The details of proposed reservoirs with ayacut details
and source of feeding are as follows:

Location of Reservoir Quantity In TMC

Devarakonda 11,60,978 1.043

Nookonda 11,52,978 0.717
Kosikonda 16,62,068 1.073
Thopudurthi 10,59,724 1.763
Vepacherla 10,99,604 1.393

Total 61,35,658 5.989

Source Ayacut Remarks

U.P.P Lift canal 12000acres Package 1

U.P.P Lift canal 16000 acres Package 3 under

Vepacherla Reservoir
U.P.P Lift canal 5000 acres U.P.P Existing Ayacut

U.P.P Lift canal 20000 acres PABR Ayacut Under

Thopudurthy Reservoir
U.P.P Lift canal 20000 acres PABR Ayacut Under
Kosikonda Reservoir
Total 73000 acres
Source Ayacut Remarks
HNSS canal 5000 acres U.P.P Existing Ayacut

HNSS canal 2500 acres Package 4

HNSS canal 10500 acres Nookonda Reservoir,

Package 5
HNSS canal 19500 acres Devarakonda Reservoir
,Package 7
Total 37500 acres

The Government vide memo no ICD01/734/2019-Projects-III dt: 26/08/2019 instructed to

examine and furnish the detailed report on the above subject matter. The proposal is
under scrutiny.