Mallanasagar dam is nearing completion

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One can hear the sounds of heavy machinery moving from anywhere in the village. Earth movers are pushing huge rocks and boulders to form the bundle’s wall, while labor from a few hundred meters away is working to fill the gaps with smaller rocks as part of the bundle’s construction. Hundreds of lorries come one after the other to build a dam for Mallansagar and dump heavy loads of red and black soil and small and medium sized rock chips.

Work on Mallansagar is going on at a brisk pace and officials have set a target to complete the work by the end of May and to complete the work by the maximum of July to ensure that the reservoir is at least ready. Rainy season

Out of the eight villages that have been submerged under Mallansagar, Singaram and Erravalli in Kondapaka mandal and Rampur and Laxmapur in Toguta mandal have been evicted from four villages – already evacuated their houses and the dam works at a brisk pace Used to be. In these villages. In four other villages – Vemulaghat, Adigadakshtapur, Pallepahar and Brahmin Banjarepalli – many of the displaced have yet to vacate the village. Those who had already left their homes among the villagers are yet to be assigned permanent accommodation at Mutarajapalli, although some families have already been relocated.

Construction officials say they have set a target to complete the bundle work by the end of May. He said, ‘The people of Vemulaghat, Etigaddakattapur and Pallepahar are not yet leaving their village. We cannot do bund work there because the construction of the bund will close the connectivity routes for these villages. In addition, some structure patch works such as the Mission Bhagirath works on packages 17, 18 and 19 and the Kondapochamma canal work, ”said an official, on condition of anonymity.

As a large amount of manpower is involved in the construction of the repair work, the work can be completed by the end of July before the rainy season begins.

“We are being told that the water will be released in Mallansagar in the next three months. We will be forced to leave our homes in one way or another, ”said a villager, requesting anonymity.