Hyderabad, Aug. 27 -- Telangana Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy said that the Pocharam project, located between Medak and Kamareddy districts, may be breached due to heavy floods.

He instructed chief secretary K Ramakrishna Rao to take steps to evacuate the people living in the villages located downstream, as a preventive measure.

As per reports, one of the corners of the spillway suffered a breach because of the reservoir overflowing, and officials were trying to plug the breach. If the project gets breached, crops on thousands of acres risk being damaged.

"The government is fully prepared to tackle any situation arising due to very heavy and extremely heavy rainfall in the state," Reddy assured, speaking with the media at Gan...