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The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) demanded that the State authorities retreat its missive addressed to the Ministry of Jal Shakti seeking biology clearance to the Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS) with 45 tmc ft h2o alternatively of the projected 90 tmc ft and support the h2o rights of Telangana by pursuing for the primitively intended quantity.
The Congress authorities led by A. Revanth Reddy had been moving against the interests of Telangana from time 1 and it had astir handed implicit the irrigation projects to the 2 stream boards, elder person of the enactment and erstwhile Minister T. Harish Rao said present connected Monday. But the authorities had stepped backmost aft BRS laminitis and erstwhile Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao raised the dependable against the move, helium said addressing a property conference.
Hitting backmost powerfully astatine Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy for making what helium (Harish Rao) called ‘senseless remarks’ against Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao and BRS connected the beforehand of irrigation successful Telangana during 2014-23, Mr. Harish Rao said. He sought to cognize the rationale successful Mr. Reddy’s assertion that the Centre had returned the elaborate task study (DPR) of PRLIS successful 2023 itself, erstwhile 7 clearances, including from the Central Electricity Authority, Central Soil and Material Research Station, Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Central Groundwater Board, were secured successful that year.
He explained that the DPR was returned to the State successful April 2023 but the BRS authorities had reverted to the MoJS wrong 3 days and Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao spoke to the ministry officials to springiness instructions to the Central Water Commission and antithetic directorates and to proceed the process of PRLIS appraisal. But the Congress authorities had kept soundless erstwhile the DPR was returned again successful December 2024 and had not pursued adjacent 1 clearance successful 2 years.
As if that was not enough, Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy and Chief Minister Revanth Reddy wrote to the Centre seeking EC for PRLIS with conscionable 45 tmc ft water, the BRS person said adding that helium (Harish Rao) had already explained connected the level of the Assembly however the impermanent shares of 299:512 tmc ft h2o were allocated to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh astatine the clip of State enactment however the BRS authorities had been opposing it since 2014, including getting the substance referred to KWDT-II for reapportionment of water.
He explained that Telangana had go fig 1 paddy shaper successful the state successful 2020-21 itself with a accumulation of 141 lakh tonnes successful Kharif with the assistance of Kaleshwaram project. A full of 17.24 lakh acres of caller ayacut was irrigated and stabilisation of different 31.5 lakh acres was done during 2014-23, whereas the Congress authorities did not adjacent springiness h2o for 11,000 acres retired of 11.61 lakh acres promised successful the archetypal 2 years.
