State government will promote check dams to
increase the ground water table, and help in preventing farmer distress in the Telangana.
The check dams will be constructed on rivulets and
streams along with the bridges to improve the ground water table to save
standing crops during drought in order to prevent farmer suicides in the Telangana
state.
Panchayatraj and Roads and buildings departments
have to inform the irrigation department while they were constructing bridges
on rivulets and stream and even small rivers so that irrigation department
construct check dams at such places.
State government has issued instruction to the
Panchayatraj and R&B departments to prepare designs of the bridges on
streams and rivulets consulting irrigation officials.
Reports revealed that some farmers had fallen into
debt after digging many borewells but failed to get water for agriculture due
drastic fall in the ground water at many places.
The state government is of the opinion that farmers
were resorting to suicides due to crop failure and subsequent debts due to crop
failures during drought and following the borewells dried up following the drastic
fall in ground water table.
Borewells they dug goes dry within no time and this
was resulted in low yields even after investing huge amounts in digging borewells.
State government found that water from rivulets and
streams flowing downstream without any use and enters into sea at last. At many
places, there were no check dams on rivulets and streams especially hilly areas
and water flows to down stream.
It is also found that overflowing water from tanks
goes downstream without any check and go waste but things become worst during
summer when there were no rains or scanty rainfall.
Minister for irrigation T. Harish Rao said ‘they
were going to promote check dams on big scale in the state and construct check
dams near Swarna irrigation project in Mudhole in the Adilabad to improve the
ground water table for agriculture purposes and said state government will give
nine hours uninterrupted power to agriculture from next Kharif’.
State government is making serious efforts to
install new electric transformers and set up power sub-station to give
uninterrupted power supply to the agriculture in future.
