Mini- tank bunds turn into scenic picnic spots

 

Pochamma Cheruvu is developed as mini- tank bund in Bellampalli

Five tanks being developed as mini- tank bunds under Mission Kakatiya in Khanapur, Sirpur (T), Bellampalli, Chennur, and Mancherial assembly constituency headquarters in the district, have turned into picnic spots in the Adilabad district.

Families and other visitors thronging them even though work on some of them, such as Pochamma Cheruvu on the outskirts of the Bellampalli town,has not  been completed fully.

Strengthening of bund with substantial width is enabling the people to ride bikes on it with their kids and experiencing the scenic beauty of the tank: the other side of the Pochamma tank is abloom with lotuses.

A central lighting system was set up along the tank bund and boating facilities area also being made available. A canteen too will come up along the bund.

Rakesh Kumar of Bellampalli town said that the mini- tank bund would certainly serve tourists well as a brief retreat; a variety of facilities offering people an opportunity to relax despite leading busy lives.

A gigantic Buddha statue is being erected in the middle of Nagamma tank in the Sirpur (T) town which is being developed as mini- tank bund at a cost of Rs 1.90 crore. This will be the second one after the Tank Bund of Hyderabad where a  Buddha statue was installed in the middle of  Hussain Sagar.

Local MLA Koneru Konappa had ordered for Buddha statue from Kurnool district to be installed in the tank. There are a considerable number of Buddhist in the Sirpur (T), Bejjur, Kautala, Kagaznagar and Dahegoan mandals in the Sirpur (T) Assembly constituency.

Encroachers to get 2BKH houses

Khanapur tank in Adilabad town 

Encroachers on the Khanapur tank will get two bedroom houses (2BKH) as an incentive to vacate the existing houses that they have constructed on the tank bed. Efforts are being made to develop Khanapur tank as a mini-tank bund in the Adilabad town.

The Khanapur tank is one of the popular old Talabs dug up during the Nizam period in the Adilabad district. 

Nearly 260 houses on the tank bed will be removed to revive and expand the tank and develop it as mini- tank bund and make it as tourist spot in the Adilabad town.

State government is developing one tank from each Assembly constituency as mini- tank bund under the mission Kakatiya. 

It will also make special arrangements at these mini- tank bunds to play Bathukamma in future.Sources said that divisional revenue officials had prepared the list of the houses by encroaching on the tank bed and were living there. 

The two bedroom houses would be built in survey NO.  68, which is government land behind the Kastala Ramakistu colony in the mavala grampanchayat on the outskirts of the Adilabad town.

People used to swim in the Khanapur tank and many fishermen families were depended on the tank but things have changed a lot after the sewerage water releasing into the tank and people started encroaching the tank and constructing houses in the last 20 years.    

A senior TRS leader of Adilabad town said, only after revenue officials had completed the construction of houses to be allotted they would start evacuating people and razing the structures on the tank bed which were causing them problems.

A majority of the houses on the tank bed were getting inundated during het rainy season, and it had become a common practice for those living in them to demand compensation for such damage.

100 tank bunds coming up in TS

Khanapur tank which was encroached upon in Adilabad town. 

State government is developing existing tanks as mini- tank bunds, one each in Assembly Constituency in all the districts under Mission Kakatiya in the Telangana. Arrangements for Bathukamma will be made at mini- tank bunds by next year like at Tank Bund in Hyderabad.

Encroachments will be removed from the existing tanks to develop them as mini- tank bunds as per the government order NO: 86 issued recently.  Revenue and irrigation departments will conduct join survey and submitted the report to the state government. 

The mini tank buds will be completed before the next Bathukamma festival.

The state government has sanctioned ten mini- tank bunds to the Adilabad district under Mission Kakatiya but only six proposals have been submitted so far to the irrigation department. These tank bunds will also be developed as tourist spots and picnic centres.

Khanapur tank in Adilabad town will be developed as mini- tank bund and also Dharmasagar tank in Nirmal town, in Boath and Sirpur (T) before the next Bathukamma.

Irrigation Minister T. Harish Rao asked the officials to immediately submit the proposals for the mini- tanks bunds in the 10 Assembly constituencies and said he has received proposals so far for only six mini- tank bunds in the district.

The existing tanks will be developed 6 meeters width, Bathukamma ghats will be constructed, sewerage plant will be set up to clean the polluted water mixing into the tank and added that railing, boating plat form, walking track and statues of important political leaders and prominent persons will be installed, area beatification, entertainment facilities, boundaries, cafeteria at the Khanapur tank in the Adilabad.

The water after purifying and keeping the PH percent in the water at required level will be used for drinking and irrigation purposes and feeder channel from Kummarikunta in Kummariwada will be cleaned which is attached to the Khanapur tank.  

Deputy Engineer of Irrigation Adilabad R. Prathap Singh said they have submitted a proposal to develop the Khanapur tank as mini- tank bund at a cost of Rs 18.86 crore in the Adilabad town.

According to reliable sources, the encroachments in Khanapur tank in the Adilabad will be removed and a walking track will be developed in that places as proposed in the report.