After the State governments plan to send Godavari water by gravity into the canals of the project got postponed by a whole year, the focus now has shifted to the completion of 28 high-priority projects as per schedule by the end of the financial year.
In a status report issued on the 28 irrigation projects during the fifth round of the Janmabhoomi-Maavuru programme, the government said five of the 28 projects had been completed and even inaugurated, eight more were ready to be inaugurated and the remaining 15 were at various stages of completion by the end of the financial year.

The State has 69 rivers or rivulets and over 40 of them flow into the Bay of Bengal.

Attempts are being made to make the optimum use of every drop of rain.

The State government has earmarked ₹13,896 crore for the completion of these 28 projects that would create an additional ayacut of 4,87,628 acres and stabilise the irrigation in 20,10,381 acres already under irrigation.

The five projects that had been inaugurated are the Purushottapatnam Lift Irrigation Scheme, the anicut across the Sarada river near Kasimkota village in Visakhapatnam district, the Muchchumarri Lift Irrigation Scheme, the Gandikota Chitravathi Balancing Reservoir Lift Irrigation Scheme in Kadapa and the Siddhapur Lift Irrigation Scheme in Kurnool district.

The Purushottapatnam LIS taken up with ₹1,638 crore stabilises an ayacut of 67,614 acres under the Yeleru reservoir and the Pitapuram branch canal and creates an additional ayacut of 1,47,386 acres.

The Gandikota CBR project had been completed at a cost of ₹1,744 crore for pumping 8.3 tmcft from the reservoir in Kadapa to the Chitravathi balancing reservoir (CBR) in Anantapur. The LIS has the capacity to pump the entire 8.3 tmcft in 45 days.

The ayacut is 12,000 acres.

Water Resources Department Officer on Special Duty (OSD) A. Varaprasada Rao told The Hindu that the State government wanted all the projects to be completed within a year so that farmers would benefit from them at the earliest.

The eight projects waiting to be inaugurated are Yerrakaluva after modernisation and the Pogomda reservoir in West Godavari, Pedapalem Lift, Guntur district , Chinasaana Lift, Srikakulam district, Maarala and Cherlopalli reservoirs in Anantapur district, Kandaleru Lift, Nellore district, Owk Tunnel and the Sri Narasimha Rao Sagar Project in Kurnool district.

There are another 16 projects at various stages of completion. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and Water Resources Minister Devineni Umamaheswara Rao are reviewing the progress of these projects once a week.

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