Hyderabad, April 16 -- Farmers living downstream and tail-end banks of the Musi river of three southern Telangana districts urged the state government to restore and revitalise a magnificent irrigation network established during the Nizam era, comprising 24 major Katuvas (weirs/anicuts) and hundreds of subsidiary canals interconnected with them- as part of the Musi Riverfront Development Project.

The irrigation system in the undivided Nalgonda district helps replenish tanks and reservoirs in nearly 70 villages. Originally built to support agriculture across 25,000 acres, it now caters to cultivation over 1.12 lakh acres.

In a letter addressed to the three-member ministerial committee headed by Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka to ...