Hyderabad, Feb. 3 -- BRS's Medak MP Koth Prabhakar Reddy released the Kaleshwaram water into the Kudavelly stream for irrigation on Friday.

Water gushed out after lifting the gates of the Kondapochamma Sagar canal at Kodakandla in Gajwel Mandal.

The step came following a request from local farmers that water in the Kudavelly scheme was receding. The water will be used until the harvest of the Yasangi paddy.

This is the third consecutive year that the state government had released irrigation water into the Kudavelly stream to meet the irrigation needs of the farmers living around.

The Medak MP, after the water release event, said "the chief minister, KCR has built the Kaleshwara Lift Irrigation Scheme (KLIS) to put an end to the drinki...