Hyderabad, April 30 -- Senior Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader and former minister T Harish Rao has strongly countered allegations made by minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy regarding the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project, emphasizing the project's operational success and dismissing claims of corruption and wasteful expenditure.

Harish Rao highlighted the vast scale of the Kaleshwaram project, which includes three barrages, 19 substations, 21 pump houses, 16 reservoirs, 203 kilometres of tunnels, and 231 kilometres of gravity canals.

He pointed out that irrigation water continues to flow from Kondapochamma Sagar and Mallanna Sagar, both integral components of the Kaleshwaram project.

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