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Manjira River

Origin : Gaurwadi in Balaghat Hills,  Ahemednagar District, Maharashtra State, India. Elevation : 823 metres (2,700 ft) Length : 724 km (450 mi) Drainage : 30,844 km2 (11,909 sq mi) Outflow : Godavari River States : Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana. Length in Telangana : Around 290 km Start : Goudgaon (Janwada)   village, Nagalgidda Mandal, Narayankhed revenue division of Sangareddy district in Telangana, India. End : Kandakurthy village, Renjal Mandal, Nizamabad district Districts : Sangareddy, Medak, Kamareddy, Nizamabad Sangareddy District: Nagalgidda,  Manoor of Narayankhed revenue division, Raikode of Zaheerabad revenue division, Vatpally, Munipally, Pulkal, Sadasivpet, Sangareddy, Hathnoora, Andole Medak District Mandals: Chillipched, Kulcharam, Medak, Papannapet, Shankarampet_A, Kamareddy District Mandals: Nagireddypet, Nizamsagar, Pitlam, Banswada, Birkoor, Bichkunda, Madnur Nizamabad District Mandals: Kotgiri, Bodhan, Renjal Manjira River also spelled Manjeera also called the

SRSP Flood Flow Canal

SRSP Flood Flow Canal is a 130 km long gravity canal from Sriram Sagar Project, Sangam Village, Nizamabad District to Mid Manair Dam, Manwada Village, Karimnagar District, Telangana. This Canal initiated as part of Sriram Sagar stage-II in which the foundation stone was laid by the former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao in 1991. With this Canal the surplus water from Sriram Sagar Project can be taken into Mid Manair Dam to utilize another 25 tmcft and also it can be used to fill the Lower Manair Dam at KarimnagarCity. Canal construction was completed by July 2010, It was open in Aug 2010 after couple of trials. Canal is currently using to fill Lower Manair Dam as Mid Manair is under construction. It has been designed in such way that it will discharge 22000 cusecs water (Max Capacity), which means it can carry 50 tmcft water into Mid Manair (26 tmcft) and Lower Manair (24 tmcft) reservoirs in just 25 days at its full canal capacity (i.e. 2 tmcft per day). The flood canal c

Telangana Districts

Telangana has 33 districts from 17th February 2019.  Telangana had 10 districts and changed to 31 on 11th October, 2016. Adilabad Bhadradri Kothagudem Hanumakonda Hyderabad Jagtial Jangaon Jayashankar Bhoopalpally Jogulamba Gadwal Kamareddy Karimnagar Khammam Komaram Bheem Asifabad Mahabubabad Mahbubnagar Mancherial Medak Medchal Mulugu Nagarkurnool Narayanpet Nalgonda Nirmal Nizamabad Peddapalli Rajanna Sircilla Ranga Reddy Sangareddy Siddipet Suryapet Vikarabad Wanaparthy Warangal Yadadri Bhuvanagiri

Telangana Irrigation

Irrigation Projects on Godavari River    Godavari River J.Chokka Rao Devadula Lift Irrigation Scheme  is a lift irrigation scheme near Gangaram (V), Eturunagaram (M), Jayashankar Bhupalpally District, Telangana, India to irrigate   6.21 Lakh Acres  in upland drought prone areas of Karimnagar, Warangal, Nalgonda and Medak Districts. It is the second biggest of its kind in Asia. Sriram Sagar Stage - I (Pochampad) Major Irrigation Project    constructed near Pochampadu, Nizamabad district to irrigate  1 million acres  (4,000 km2) to utilize 140 tmc water. As a result of Inter-State accord on sharing of Godavari River water, the allocation for this project was increased from 66 TMC to more than 200 TMC. Accordingly, the scope of Stage-I of the Project was enlarged by extending Kakatiya Canal upto Km.284.00, excavating Saraswathi Canal (Km.0.00 to Km.47.00) and Laxmi Canal (Km.0.00 to 3.50).  It also provides drinking water to urban & rural areas along the canal system, particularl

Telangana Rivers

Telangana has 2 main rivers Godavari and Krishna , which flows from West to East. The Godavari River is the second longest river in India after the river Ganges and the longest river in Peninsular India. The Krishna River or Kistna also called Krishnaveni is the third-longest river in India, after the Ganges and Godavari and the second longest river of the Peninsular India after Godavari.  Godavari River  - The river is also known as Dakshin Ganga and Gautami.  Origin : Western Ghats at Triambak near Nasik in Maharashtra Outflow : Bay of Bengal Elevation : 1067 meters (3500 ft) Length : 1,465 km (910 mi) Drainage : 312812  sq km States : Maharashtra, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry (Yanam) and Telangana Length in Telangana: 600 km Start in Telangana: Kandakurthy, Renjal Mandal, Nizamabad district End in Telangana: Bhadrachalam in Bhadradri Kothagudem district Drainage in Telangana: 58,808 sq km                           Districts :  Nizamabad, Nirmal,  Jagitial,  Ma

Krishna River

The Krishna River or Kistna also called Krishnaveni is the third-longest river in India, after the  Ganges  and  Godavari  and  the second longest  river of the Peninsular India after Godavari. It is also the fourth-largest in terms of water inflows and river basin area in India, after the Ganges, Godavari and Brahmaputra. Origin : Jor village, Mahabaleswar (Western Ghats), Satara district, Mahasrashtra State, India. Length : 1400 km (869.9 mi) Drainage : 258948 km Elevation : 1,337 m (4,386 ft) Outflow : Bay of Bengal, near Hamsaladeevi village in Diviseema, Koduru Mandal, Krishna District,   Andhra Pradesh State, India. States : Maharashtra 305 km (190 mi), Karnataka 483 km (300 mi),  Telangana and Andhra Pradesh 612 km (380 mi). Length in Telangana: Around 430 km Start in Telangana: Thangadigi village, Krishna Mandal, Narayanpet district. End in Telangana: Vajinepally, MellaCheruvu Mandal, Suryapet district. Telangana Districts : Narayanpet, Jogulambha Gadwal, Wanapar