Jalayagnam

[1] This project accords the highest priority for the development of irrigation infrastructure, particularly in backward and drought prone areas by taking up this program in a big way.

The Jala Yagnam program was to complete 32 major and 17 medium irrigation projects at a cost of Rs.

The project requires the construction of 78 dams and is expected to displace significant numbers of people whose villages will be submerged.

The irrigation development was almost stagnant for the last decade and the previous governments concentrated on hi-tech and neglected the agricultural sector, on which approximately 70% of the population depends.

Also the suicides of many farmers from the state made Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy give more significance to the irrigation sector.

Jalayagnam and other completed projects'map The documents obtained from Right to Information Act of India indicates that show the irregularities that were committed range from violation of the common tender document to illegally made excessive payments for the works done and fraudulently claimed to have been done.