Categories: Innovation

Visvesaraya Jala Nigam wins top award in Yettinahole project execution

Bengaluru: The Visvesvaraya Jala Nigam Limited (VJNL) has won a prestigious national award, ISDA INFRACON National Award-IINA, for the year 2025 for using cutting edge technology in Karnataka’s Yettinahole project.

The award, instituted by the Infrastructure Skill Development Academy (ISDA), was given to VJNL in New Delhi on June 14. This prestigious award recognises extraordinary skill and technology used in infrastructure projects in the country and is given away every year.

VJNL Managing Director Sanna Chittaiah and his team met Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, who also handles Irrigation portfolio, along with the award recently.

The award was given for the use of advanced technology in building the 10.47 km-long aqueduct between 199.62 km and 210.09 km stretch of the Yettinahole drinking water project.

The work on the aqueduct project was started by VJNL in 2018 and was completed in 2023.

The aqueduct has the capacity to transport 3,300 cusecs of water and works on gravitational force.

The cost of the aqueduct was Rs 1,203.68 crore including land acquisition cost of Rs 41 crore.

TBM Newsdesk

Recent Posts

In the ‘Race for Space’, this is what Karnataka’s Centre for Excellence hopes to achieve…

The Centre of Excellence (CoE) SpaceTech Foundation, an initiative of the Government of Karnataka established…

7 hours ago

On the anvil: Sustainable data parks of 1,000 MW in Bengaluru, Mysuru and Mangaluru, and KSDL unit in Vijayapura

Emphasising the importance of sustainable data centres for industrial growth in Karnataka, the government has…

3 days ago

DKMS Foundation India launches free HLA typing for children with Thalassaemia

DKMS Foundation India has announced free HLA typing for all children below 12 years of…

4 days ago

BEL, Metamind and Kristellar forge strategic alliance to drive future-ready defence technologies

In a significant move to strengthen India’s indigenous defence and technology ecosystem, Bharat Electronics Limited…

5 days ago

Karnataka to focus on ‘quality in quantum’, as preparations under way for Q-City, sectoral infrastructure

With the aim of establishing Karnataka as a global epicentre of quantum technology, the state…

1 week ago

Apollo Hospitals expands ‘Seniors First’ to strengthen integrated geriatric care across Bengaluru

Apollo Hospitals has announced the expansion of its dedicated geriatric care initiative, Apollo Seniors First,…

1 week ago