<<....Henry Morris in Godavari writes about the work of Sir Cotton thus:
The Godavari anicut is, perhaps, the noblest feat of engineering skill which has yet been accomplished in British India. It is a gigantic barrier thrown across the river from island to island, in order to arrest the unprofitable progress of its waters to the sea, and to spread them over the surface of the country on either side, thus irrigating copiously land which has hitherto been dependent on tanks or on the fitful supply of water from the river. Large tracts of land, which had hitherto been left arid and desolate and waste, were thus reached and fertilized by innumerable streams and channels.
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*Translated in Telugu
by
(Retd.) Prof. Kavana Sarma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavana_Sarma
IISc.
http://www.triposo.com/loc/Rajahmundry
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