Hyderabad, May 1 -- The Telangana government has decided to revive the Pranahita-Chevella lift irrigation scheme, originally launched under Y S Rajasekhar Reddy government in undivided Andhra Pradesh in 2008 and later abandoned by the Bharat Rashtra Samithi government (BRS), which redesigned it as the controversial Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project.

Chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Wednesday instructed the state irrigation department to initiate the dialogue with the neighbouring Maharashtra government seeking its consent for the construction of a barrage at Tummidihatti village of Komuram Bheem district at a height of 150 metres.

"We shall write to the Maharashtra government seeking a consultation on the construction of Tummidihatti...