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Pump house floor at the Kaleshwaram project with stainless steel chain railing around a pump unit

Case study · Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Ltd

300 feet underground at Kaleshwaram.

From 2017 to 2020, a 20-member Royal Engineering Works team supplied and installed kitchen equipment, canteen furniture, stainless steel and glass railings and custom fabrication across MEIL's sites on the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project in Telangana.

Client
MEIL
Project
Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation
Duration
2017 – 2020
below ground, in the pump-house tunnels
300 ft
member Royal Engineering Works crew
20
MEIL sites across Telangana
5
of continuous delivery, 2017–2020
3 yrs

The project

A lift irrigation scheme built inside the rock.

The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project is the world's largest lift irrigation scheme: a chain of pump houses, tunnels and reservoirs that lifts Godavari water to the farmland of Telangana. Many of its pump houses sit deep underground, carved out of solid rock.

Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Ltd (MEIL) built the pump houses. For the railing works and custom fabrication inside them — plus canteen kitchen equipment and dining tables for its sites — MEIL brought in Royal Engineering Works: not a supplier dropping stock at the gate, but a crew that could fabricate, fit and finish on site, alongside heavy machinery, at every package.

For three years, that crew was ours. Twenty people from Royal Engineering Works moved between five sites — Karimnagar, Siddipet, Gowraram, Pregnapur and Godavarikhani — delivering everything from the canteen kitchens that fed the workforce to the railings that now ring the pump units.

What we delivered

From the canteen to the pump floor.

  1. 01
    Commercial kitchen equipmentCooking, storage and preparation equipment for the site canteens that fed the project workforce.
  2. 02
    Canteen dining tablesStainless steel dining tables for the canteens, built to take shift-after-shift use.
  3. 03
    SS chain railingPolished stainless steel posts and chain around the pump units on the main pump house floor.
  4. 04
    SS staircase railingStaircase and opening railings for the pump houses, fabricated and fitted in place.
  5. 05
    Glass railingEtched glass balustrades with stainless steel fittings for the control building balconies.
  6. 06
    Custom fabricationMade-to-measure stainless steel work to site requirements, as each package needed it.
Lit underground tunnel at the Kaleshwaram project
The underground works
Deep water channel cut into rock with a narrow walkway above
Water on one side, rock on the other

The conditions

Critical oxygen. A bridge four feet wide.

Much of the work happened 300 feet below ground, in tunnels where oxygen levels were critical. Every sheet, every length of pipe and every welding set had to be taken down to the work front — and the finish still had to be good enough for one of the state's showpiece plants.

At Gowraram, the railing ran along a bridge just three to four feet wide, with pumped water rushing on one side and bare rock on the other. There was no room to set up, no room to stand back, and no second chance at a weld. Our team measured, fitted and fixed that railing section by section, until the walkway was safe.

It was the hardest job we had taken on. We delivered anyway.

Gowraram · The narrow bridge

Railing a four-foot bridge, one section at a time.

Open water chambers on one side, the embankment on the other, and a walkway barely wide enough for a welding set. These are the photos from the day the railing went in.

  • Narrow bridge walkway with stainless steel railing on both sides and welding equipment
    The Gowraram walkway, railing on both sides
  • Workers welding stainless steel railing along the bridge beside open chambers
    Welding along the bridge, open chambers alongside
  • Deep white chambers seen from the edge of the bridge
    The chambers below the walkway
  • Stainless steel railing along the edge of a water channel
    SS railing along the channel edge
  • Looking down into a deep circular opening beside water
    Looking down: the drop beside the work

On site

The work, as it was installed.

Photos from MEIL package sites, 2017–2020

  • Pump house floor with stainless steel railings around each pump unit
    Pump house floor — SS railings around each pump unit
  • Stainless steel railing with diamond infill around a floor opening
    SS railing with diamond infill
  • Multi-level steel staircase with railings inside the pump house
    Pump house staircase railings
  • Etched glass railing on the Package 8 control building balcony
    Etched glass railing — Link-II, Package 8 control building
  • Polished stainless steel posts around a pump unit
    Posts set around a pump unit
  • Chain railing being installed with a welding set on site
    Chain railing, mid-install
  • Railing fitted around an opening while the pump house was still under scaffolding
    Fitted while the pump house was still under scaffolding
  • Overhead view of the pump house floor with railings around the units
    Unit after unit, the full length of the hall

The outcome

Delivered — and inaugurated by the Chief Minister.

The project was inaugurated by the then Chief Minister of Telangana, K. Chandrashekar Rao — with our railings, staircases, glass balustrades and canteens part of the finished plant. For a team founded just a year before the work began, it set the standard we still hold ourselves to: if the site is hard, we plan harder.

Sites we worked on

  • Karimnagar
  • Siddipet
  • Gowraram
  • Pregnapur
  • Godavarikhani
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