Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao Telangana declared that his government will spend about imposing Rs. 22,500 crore for the revival and restoration of minor irrigation schemes over the next five years. 

Speaking at a workshop at the state level in irrigation minor in JNTU, Kukatpally here on Thursday alleged that the sector was systematically destroyed in AP dispensing together since 1956 as most of Telangana were dependent on irrigation tank heavily before. 

It was shocking that there was not even a sanctioned post of SE to Mahabubnagar district had more than 7,000 irrigation tanks and explained the extent of the negligence of the industry had suffered combined AP, he said. Develop plans for the revival of the irrigation sector minor Prime Minister said more than 9,000 tanks would be restored every year to cover 45,300 tanks identified in five years. 

He directed the officials to release Rs 20 crore for the purchase of survey instruments for the preparation of estimates for the restoration of the tanks. Irrigation Minister T. Harish Rao, interior minister N. Narasimha Reddy, Chief Secretary SK Joshi Irrigation, Irrigation Adviser R. Vidyasagar Rao, Chief Engineer Muralidhar and others were present