BHUBANESWAR: Union Minister of State for Water Resources and Minority Affairs Vincent H Pala in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha informed that the Union Water Resources Ministry has completed Feasibility Report on Mahanadi (Manibhadra)-Godavari (Dowlaiswaram) link. He also added that the National Water Development Agency (NWDA) has already completed Survey and Investigation works in Ganga (Farakka)-Sunderbans link, Ganga-Damodar-Subernarekha link and Subernarekha-Mahanadi link.
It may be noted that Mahanadi-Godavari
Link Project envisages construction of a storage reservoir on the Mahanadi
River at Manibhadra near
Denkarasahi village in Gania Block of Nayagarh district and a link canal from
this reservoir to the Godavari River.
From the proposed project at
Manibhadra, a power house will be constructed at the toe of dam with an
installed capacity of 960 MW. For the purpose of the proposed link canal, the
FRL and MDDL of Manibhadra reservoir will be raised to 91 m and 74.15 m
respectively and then the gross storage will be 8520 Mm3 and the live storage
will be 6608 Mm3.
The 827.700 km long link canal is
proposed to take off from the right hand of the reservoir Manibhadra at the Full
Supply Level (FSL) of 74 m. A head regulator will be installed on the right
flank of Manibhadra dam and a canal power house of installed capacity of 70 MW
with one 30 MW standby unit.
Salia reservoir across the Salia
river near Balugaon town in Banpur tehasil of Khurda district with FRL 58.52 m,
gross storage capacity of 59.87 Mm3, live storage capacity of 51.97 Mm3 and
MDDL of 48.82 m. The link canal is proposed to out fall into Salia reservoir
and to take off from it at RD 144 km. It is proposed to raise the FRL of the
reservoir to 63.30 m.
The link canal would pass through
Nayagarh, Khurda, Ganjam and Gajapati districts of the State and Srikakulam,
Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam and East
Godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh. The proposed link canal is
designed to discharge 801.98 cumec at head, 352.79 cumec at the tail end.
The existing Dowlaiswaram barrage
across the river Godavari near Dowlaiswaram village in East
Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh has a pond level of 13.64 m to
act as the final outfall point of the proposed link canal.
The link canal of Mahanadi to Godavari should be named after the great emperor chatrapati Kharavela the great or after the great kingdom of Kalinga,bcoz both names are related to this region only from Odisha to northern andhra it is known as Kalinga kingdom in the past and Kharavela the great emperor was son of this soil who had make this region very proud not only in india but also abroad at that time. By naming either of this two could create a sychological awareness, confidence and pride to develop the people in this region and also it make the migration(prachar in hindi) of names of Kharavela and kalinga kindom possible. So the request to political parties is to accept this proposal and make people of this region proud.
ReplyDeleteThank You for your valuable comment. Yes You are right. It should be named after Kalinga emperor Kharvel or Kalinga as the Kalinga Veers had acquired kingdoms from Ganga to Godavari.
ReplyDeleteThanx boss, and I like your approval on my comment. So this message should be spread to aam admi of Orissa and Kalinga regions.
ReplyDeleteYa...we should do that. I'll try that in my level you also try in your level. Dont think you could not do that, you should start the process and others would follow that.
Delete