Hyderabad: Ina significant breakthrough, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai has given in-principle approval to grant a No Objection Certificate (NOC) to Telangana for the Sammakka Sagar Project on the Godavari River. The decision came after Telangana’s Irrigation and Civil Supplies Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy, accompanied by senior officials, met the Chhattisgarh Chief Minister in Raipur on Monday. Briefing the media after the meeting, Uttam Kumar Reddy thanked Vishnu Deo Sai for his positive response and described the decision as a long-awaited step towards realising the project. In his PowerPoint presentation before the Chhattisgarh CM, Uttam Kumar Reddy informed that the Sammakka Sagar Barrage was being constructed at Tupakulagudem in Mulugu district. According to project plans, the Sammakka Sagar Project will stabilise an ayacut of 1.78 lakh hectares under the Sriramsagar Project Stage-II and create a new ayacut of 12,146 hectares under the Ramappa–Pakhal Link Canal.