Overview
- State irrigation officials switched on five pumps at Nandi Medaram on Saturday to lift Godavari water into the SRSP flood flow canal and fill Mid Manair for downstream irrigation distribution.
- Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla barrages remain under free‑flow by NDSA and CWC direction while a Central Technical Oversight Committee has asked IIT Bombay and AFRY India to produce detailed rehabilitation designs in about two to three months.
- The government says water entering Sripada Yellampally is natural Godavari flow and not water lifted from the three Kaleshwaram barrages.
- BRS leaders welcomed some pump operations but accused the government of hypocrisy for running select pump houses while not repairing subsided piers at Medigadda and they pressed for immediate operation of additional pumps such as Rajeshwar Rao Peta and Kannepally.
- Farmers stand to get more irrigation if alternate pumps and flood‑flow routing continue to be monitored hourly, but pumps that lift water into Annaram and Sundilla cannot be used until those barrages are cleared to store water and repairs are completed.