Kaleshwaram project creates a new record

The mega Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme (KLIS) that gathered pace since Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao started monitoring the project progress personally is all set to create a new world record in concrete pouring in one go. As part of the mega concrete pouring exercise taken up at Medigadda barrage, the implementation agency has already achieved the second highest work turnout of 16,722 cubic metres in the past 24 hours ending 8 am on Sunday. And the concrete pouring work is still on without any break and is expected to surpass the world record by late Sunday evening.

Dubai holds the first such record performing 21,580 cubic metres concrete pour over a period of 35 hours and 19 minutes for a raft foundation laid for a residential complex from May 18 to May 20 in 2017.

The KLIS Chief Engineer N Venkateswarlu told Telangana Today that 5,840 cubic metres of reinforced concrete was laid during the last 24 hours on the four bays of the raft and another 10,882 cubic metres of concrete on eight piers. Some 1,24,751 bags (6,238 tons) of cement was used in the work.