[3][4][5] The gravity driven, 100 kilometer-long canal provides cultivation for nearly 137,000 hectares (340,000 acres)in 300 villages located in constituencies of Kollapur, Wanaparthy, Nagarkurnool, Kalwakurthy, Jadcherla, and Achampet.

Around 51 balancing reservoirs with 20 TMC water capacity are proposed under MGKLIS, scheduled to be completed by June 2019.

The Buddaram Peddavagu Lake was proposed to be converted into a reservoir, and was completed in June 2019.

This project serves water through canals which fill the lakes in five constituencies of erstwhile Mahabubnagar district.

ABB also supplied substation equipment, transformers, and a digitally-enabled supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) monitoring system.