Galeru Nagari Sujala Sravanthi Project or GNSS project is an irrigation project in

Kadapa Kadapa (colonial spelled Cuddapah) is a city in the southern part of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is located in the Rayalaseema region, and is the district headquarters of YSR Kadapa district. As of the 2022 Census of India, the city had a popula ...

and Chitoor districts of

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. It is envisaged to irrigate in two phases besides providing drinking water facilities to villages and towns en route the canal alignment. The main canal, Gandikota, Vamikonda and Sarvarajasagar reservoirs are under construction. The scheme envisages drawl of 40 TMC surplus flood waters of river Krishna from the foreshore of Srisailam Reservoir through Srisailam Right Bank Canal (SRBC) system up to Gorakallu Reservoir and thereafter through an independent flood flow canal to feed nine storage reservoirs en route and utilize the stored water for irrigation during the Rabi season. The project construction started in 2005, but the work is still in progress. This project doesn't have any assured water allocation and the

Rayalaseema Rayalaseema () is a geographic region in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It comprises eight south western districts of the State namely, Kurnool, Nandyal, Anantapur, Sri Sathya Sai, YSR, Annamayya, Tirupati and Chittoor districts ...

region people are strongly demanding the government to allocate assured water to the project.

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