Harangi Reservoir Fills Up Amid Inconsistent Monsoon Rains

July 30: The Harangi reservoir has filled despite the game of hide-and-seek this monsoon. Excess water is being released into the river. On the other hand, the reservoir will fill up due to heavy rains.

With the hope that water will also flow in the canals, most of the farmers in the Harangi Achukattu area are preparing paddy seedling beds and waiting for the canal water for paddy planting.

As a result of the major rains that were supposed to rain this monsoon, such as Mrigasira, Aridra and Punarvasu, the state government has not been able to water the paddy crop this time. The clear instructions of the state government that only drinking water will be supplied to the cattle by filling the lake banks has disappointed the farmers who have prepared paddy seedling beds and are waiting for water for planting.

The Harangi reservoir, which has a total capacity of 8 TMC, currently has 7.3 TMC of water stored.

This time, 15 TMC of water needs to be released for the kharif crop for a period of 135 days, but due to lack of rain, it is not being supplied to the crop because it is impossible to release that amount of water. However, the available water can be used to fill the lake embankments.

In addition, the interests of the Krishnarajasagar dam, which provides drinking water to the population of the state capital, Bengaluru, need to be taken into account.

Because the irrigation storage routes for this reservoir are the Hemavati and Harangi reservoirs.

This time, the source of water for KRS is the Harangi and Cauvery rivers, as the Hemavati reservoir is still not filled. After all, an engineer from the Harangi Planning Circle informed ‘Shakti’ that this decision is up to the Irrigation Advisory Committee meeting.

Apart from the MLAs from the border areas who participated in the Irrigation Advisory Committee meeting, the District Collectors of Kodagu, Mysore and Hassan districts, the Superintending Engineer of Harangi Project Circle, three Executive Engineers and a Police Officer will participate in the meeting.

The Engineers have informed that this important meeting will be held on Friday, 31st, in Mysore at 12 noon. Overall, the officials have calculated that it is almost impossible to provide water to the farmers of Harangi Achukattu area to grow paddy this time. Report: K.S. Murthy

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