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Detailed explanation-1: -Kaleshwaram Project-Important Facts. The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project is a multi-purpose irrigation project on the Godavari River in Kaleshwaram, Bhupalpally District, Telangana, India. The 3 main purposes of this project are irrigation, transport, and power.

Detailed explanation-2: -The project aims at increasing total culturable command area (the sustainable area which can be irrigated after accounting for both upstream and downstream factors) by 1, 825, 000 acre⋅ft (2, 251 hm3) across all 13 districts in addition to stabilizing the existing CCA.

Detailed explanation-3: -Conclusion. Courtesy of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project, Telangana is all set to become a leader in agriculture. Thanks to the initiative, farmers in Telangana will be able to harvest numerous crops with a year-round water supply. Earlier, farmers used to heavily rely on rains, which often led to crop failures.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation System is considered to be one of the world’s largest multi-purpose projects. It is designed to provide water for irrigation and drinking purposes to about 45 lakh acres in 20 of the 31 districts in Telangana, apart from Hyderabad and Secunderabad.

Detailed explanation-5: -The lift irrigation method is used both for watering of a certain area as a whole and for water application to particular elevated sites in the area of gravity irrigation (at that water is lifted from river or from irrigation canals).