Maharashtra and Telangana sign historic pacts on water sharing. Both states agree to construct five barrages to share water for irrigation. Telangana and Maharashtra government’s have signed an MoU for the construction of five barrages on Penganga and Godavari rivers.

Out of these, three barrages will be constructed by the Telangana State and two barrages by Maharashtra government.

This is a historic agreement on water sharing that will script a new history in the country.

The agreement will pave the pay for the two States to work out mutually-agreeable specifications on the construction of Medigadda barrage, 20 km downstream of Kaleshwaram in Warangal District, as part of the Kaleshwaram Project, a component of the redesigned Pranahita-Chevella project. The barrage would allow irrigation of 16.4 lakh acres in Telangana and over 50,000 acres in some tribal areas of Maharashtra with the help of four small lift irrigation schemes.