The project will provide irrigation facilities for an ayacut of 20,000 acres in Nirmal district of Telangana State.

In 1891[5] under the rule of Prime Minister of Hyderabad, Viqar-ul-Umra, Sadarmat Anicut was constructed by the French engineer JJ Ottley at Khanapur mandal in the erstwhile Adilabad district.

The Sadarmat Anicut has no reliable storage and thus agricultural lands can be irrigated only when there are flows from upper stretches of Godavari river.

Sadarmat Barrage will create a pondage of 1.6 TMC, which will create additional ayacut of 20,000 acres as well as stabilise the existing ayacut of 18,000 acres under Sadarmat Anicut.

The foundation stone for construction of the barrage was laid by the Irrigation Minister for Telangana, T. Harish Rao with an estimated construction cost of 520 crores on January 11, 2021.