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HYDERABAD: A five-member team of irrigation engineers from Maharashtra will visit Telangana for three days from February 13 to study the Mission Kakatiya programme being implemented by the State government for revival of minor irrigation tanks and chain-link tank system.The visiting team will comprise a Chief Engineer, two superintending engineers and two executive engineers of the Water Resources Department of the Maharashtra government. Minister for Irrigation T. Harish Rao has directed the officials to make necessary arrangements for the field visit of the Maharashtra engineers team.TN team visit put offThe State Government has already received information from Tamil Nadu Government that a team from there would come to Telangana for studying the programme taken up for revival of traditional water bodies. Officials stated that Tamil Nadu had decided to depute a team following a recommendation by noted agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan.