Hyderabad, July 22 -- Five months after the roof of the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel at Domalapenta village in Telangana's Nagarkurnool district collapsed trapping eight persons working on the project in the debris, and with six of the bodies yet to be recovered, the Telangana government has started work on completing the tunnel. The 44-km long tunnel, which is expected to cost Rs.4,600 crore, aims to transfer Krishna river water from the Srisailam reservoir to provide irrigation to four lakh acres in the erstwhile combined Nalgonda district, besides providing drinking water to 516 villages en route, but work on it has been on a standstill since February 22, four days after work started on a critical 9.6 km long stretch of the tu...