Sep 22nd 2010 --- Industrial Tour to Pulichintala Project by2009 Batch Civil Students

 Ø  Sep 22^nd 2010 --- Industrial Tour to Pulichintala Project by2009 Batch Civil Students
 On 22^nd September 2010, at 9:30 AM by boarding a bus provided by our college, we left from Paritala to Pulichintala project and we returned back by 5:30 PM on the same day. The Eight hours trip turned out to be a memorable one. Tour was successfully completed under the guidance of Sri. Naga Malleswara Rao.
The Pulichintala project was on the river Krishna, estimated cost Rs. 180 crore in 1988 impounds about 46 thousand million cubic feet (tm cft) and directly benefits about 12 lakh acres of land in Guntur & Krishna districts resulting in an additional yield of 3 quintals of paddy per acre per year. The additional benefit was estimated Rs. 120 crore per year in 1988. The project generates 150 megawatts (MW) of electricity which will benefit Nalgonda and Guntur districts, the dam was 1290 meters long and 42 meters high is proposed to be built across the river Krishna at Pulichintala village in Guntur district and Nemalipuri village on other side of the river is Nalgonda district. The project is 120 km down stream project and above the Prakasam barrage which goes waste into Bay of Bengal in August, September & October months in every year. The Pulichintala project which is a balancing reservoir with a capacity of 47 tm cft, doesn’t has its own ayacut but strengthens the ayacut under the Prakasam barrage. The project does not have distributary’s canals, if Pulichintala project becomes a reality, the ayacut under Prakasam barrage need to depend on release of water from Nagarjuna Sagar during nursery and transplantation of paddy periods the lower levels of water in Nagarjuna Sagar in August & September this year coupled with inadequate water in the Prakasam barrage reservoir, transplantation of paddy in Guntur and Krishna district was delayed and the area under the paddy shrank. The Pulichintala project will augment water in the Prakasam barrage reservoir the surplus water impounded in the Pulichintala reservoir will be released to the Prakasam barrage reservoir with rapid development of 22 lakhs acre command area under the Nagarjuna Sagar project and constructions of dams in the upper reaches of Krishna river in Karnataka and Maharastra, inflows into the Prakasam barrage have been dwindling, dislocating the agricultural operations in the Krishna delta. Incidentally the proposed project will reduce the road length between Chennai & Hyderabad by about 40 km and improves water table in parts of Guntur and Nalgonda districts adjoining the reservoir.
A balancing reservoir is proposed across river Krishna near Pulichinta Village in Guntur District ( 85.0 Km upstream of Prakasam barrage and 115.0 Km down stream of Nagarjuna Sagar Dam), for storing 45.77 TMC of water for stabilization of existing ayacut of 13.08 Lakh acres of Krishna delta and for early transplantation of paddy crop during June and July.
 Administrative approvals for Rs. 681.604 Crores was accorded by the Government vide G.O.Ms. No. 208 Dt. 18-11-2005. revised administrative approval for Rs. 1281.0 Crores was accorded by the Government wide G.O.Ms.No. 90 Dt. 04-08-2009.
 The construction of head works of the Project were entrusted to M/s Srinivasa Constructions Limited CR 18G JV, Hyderabad for their quoted amount of Rs. 268.87 Crores with a tender premium of less 18.4% and agreement concluded vide S.E’s agt. No. 1SE/2004-2005 Dt. 30/9/04.