The Telangana government has announced plans to revive the Pranahita-Chevella lift irrigation scheme, which was originally launched in 2008 under the administration of Y S Rajasekhar Reddy in undivided Andhra Pradesh but was abandoned by the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government in 2016. Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy instructed the irrigation department to engage with the Maharashtra government for approval to construct a barrage at Tummidihatti village in Komuram Bheem district at a height of 150 meters. This barrage is a crucial component of the scheme aimed at lifting 160 thousand million cubic feet (tmc) of water from the Pranahita river, a tributary of the Godavari, to irrigate 16 lakh acres across various districts, including Adilabad and Nizamabad, while also supplying drinking water to Hyderabad. The estimated cost of the project stands at ₹38,500 crore (approximately $4.6 billion USD). Previously, the BRS government had redesigned the project into the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation scheme, relocating the barrage and causing the project's cost to escalate to over ₹1 lakh crore (approximately $12 billion USD). The chief minister emphasized that the new barrage would cause minimal submergence in Maharashtra and expressed readiness to compensate affected residents.