Telangana State Irrigation Minister, T Harish Rao was impressed on talks with the Telangana NRI's. There were efforts for every acre of the agricultural land in the State in the next 3-4 years to get irrigated and the minister appealed to all Telanganites to be part of their dream project, Mission Kakatiya with a missionary zeal.

"Mission Kakatiya, with the tag line, mana vooru, mana cheruvu (our village and our lake), is one of the illustrious projects for the Government. Lakes in Telangana region enjoyed a great legacy of 1000 years. They thrived under the Kakatiyas, Quli Qutubshahis and the Nizams.

 Mission Kakatiya is being taken up on a war-footing to revive around 45000 lakes with 9000 every year until 2019 and with a huge budget of INR 20,000 crores. These lakes require renovation and repair and should be freed from encroachments in some cases.

Once they were restored, they can store around 260 TMC of water and irrigate up to 25 lakh hectares in the State. Apart from agriculture, the project would provide succor to communities like fishermen, washer men and other artisans, who are greatly dependent on water.

The government was overwhelmed with the response pouring in from various quarters like TJAC and the four-lakh TNGOs, with the latter donating a day’s salary for the project." Harish Rao said.