Telangana: Five Workers Die After Crane Cable Snaps At Palamuru-Ranga Reddy Lift Irrigation Project Site

The incident occurred at about 11pm on Thursday when they were working on package 1 of the Palamuru Ranga Reddy lift irrigation project.

Palamuru-Ranga Reddy Lift Irrigation Project

Hyderabad: Five labourers were killed and two others suffered injures after a crane cable snapped and fell on the workers at the Palamuru -Ranga Reddy Lift Irrigation project site in Nagarkurnool district. The five labourers are from Jharkhand and Bihar.

The incident occurred at about 11pm on Thursday when they were working on package 1 of Palamuru Ranga Reddy lift irrigation project. The labourers were involved in some work in a 100-feet deep tunnel and were coming out it when the crane cable snapped.

"The victims were found lying with injuries in the ventilation shaft being built 100 meters below the ground, and they were immediately shifted to the Osmania Hospital, where they were declared dead," said Kollapur Police Inspector Venkat Reddy, as quoted by Sakhi Post. He said that a case had been filed, and investigation was underway.

The Palamuru Ranga Reddy Lift Irrigation Scheme, being constructed at a cost of Rs 35,000 crore, envisages lifting water in five stages through pumping from the foreshore of Srisailam Reservoir near Yellur village to the proposed KP Laxmidevipally Reservoir near Shadnagar in Ranga Reddy district.

The lift irrigation scheme envisages creating irrigation potential in upland areas of Nagarkurnool, Mahbubnagar, Vikarabad, Ranga Reddy and Nalgonda districts for an ayacut (area under irrigation) of about 10 lakh acres. The project will also fetch drinking water needs in the old Ranga Reddy district.

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