Hyderabad, Aug. 8 -- Two major lift irrigation projects, taken up by the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government in Telangana at a cost of more than Rs.1.25 lakh crore in the last 10 years, have failed to justify the expenditure incurred on them, according to the reports tabled by the present Congress government, during the budget session of the state assembly session.

While the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project (KLIP), one of the largest lift irrigation projects of the world built on Godavari river at a cost of Rs.93,872 crore, provided irrigation to only 98,590 acres, the Palamuru-Rangareddy lift irrigation scheme (PRLIS) being built on Krishna river at an estimate of Rs.35,200 crore, is yet to come into operation even after...