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Minister for Water Resources Nimmala Rama Naidu inspected cardinal operation components of the Polavaram Irrigation Project connected Thursday, including the close connectivity tunnels, the ECRF dam and the diaphragm wall.
Speaking to the media aft the review, the Minister said that the operation works connected the diaphragm partition person reached 950 metres, achieving 75% progress. Overall, the Polavaram task is present 88% complete, helium said.
Mr. Rama Naidu criticised the erstwhile YSRCP government, stating that portion lone 2% advancement was recorded successful the 5 years nether erstwhile Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, the contiguous authorities nether Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has achieved astir 12% advancement wrong its archetypal year. The technically analyzable close connectivity tunnels, featuring afloat lining works, person reached 82% completion, portion the near connectivity works stood astatine 62%, helium said.
The operation of the buttress dam has been completed, enabling uninterrupted enactment adjacent during the monsoon season. Alleging that the diaphragm partition constructed earlier was damaged during the YSRCP term, helium said the caller diaphragm partition is being rebuilt rapidly and would beryllium completed by February.
Stating that rehabilitation and resettlement remained a apical precedence for the government, the Minister said that ₹2,000 crore had been released wrong a twelvemonth to enactment affected families. He besides announced that enactment connected the near main canal was progressing swiftly and that by 2026, the Godavari stream waters would beryllium carried up to Anakapalli.
Mr. Rama Naidu claimed that during the erstwhile regime, adjacent Ministers and the past CM Jagan himself were incapable to state a timeline for the completion of the Polavaram project. The contiguous conjugation authorities has restored the task to its intended people aft '’severe harm during the YSRCP period'’.
“People are witnessing however the task was destroyed nether YSRCP regularisation and however it is present being rebuilt successfully nether the confederation government,” the Minister added.
