Mission Kakatiya

In April 2022, the Government of India launched a similar water body rejuvenation scheme called the Mission Amrit Sarovar.

The crop yield proved to be a boon, as published by pioneering, patented work of a Telangana farmer, Chintala Venkat Reddy.

The water activist, popularly known as Waterman of India, Rajendra Singh, toured the rejuvenated lakes and was impressed by the turnaround of life.

This helps the engineers to plan and monitor effectively with an exhaustive, granular and realtime data, obviating the need for manual recording.

This is helping the Department to estimate the area of irrigated land, crops under a given tank, for each season using satellite imagery like Google Earth.

[4][5] University of Michigan study group are developing a low-cost way to increase crop yield and reduce the use of fertilizers for Indian farmers.

A multi-disciplinary team of 16 students, from eight schools of the university, after having analyses the work in two villages of Adilabad and Karimnagar districts for 12 months to learn about the program’s effectiveness.

[7] University of Chicago’s Tata Development Centre has come forward to do a detailed 2-year study of the program, which will evaluate its impact on agricultural, environmental and economic outcome.