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Former curate and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLA T. Harish Rao has accused the Congress Government of compromising connected Telangana’s h2o rights by linking the projected Godavari–Nallamalasagar task with the Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS).
“Any effort to nexus the 2 projects amounts to surrendering Telangana’s legally entitled h2o rights and betraying the interests of the State,” Mr. Harish Rao said astatine a property league present connected Sunday.
Stating that the BRS was powerfully opposed to the Banakacherla task and had fought to support Telangana’s rightful stock nether the Godavari Water Disputes Tribunal award, helium said BRS had repeatedly warned that Telangana was entitled to 45 tmc ft allocation successful Krishna waters if Godavari waters were diverted to the Krishna basin by AP.
After the Banakacherla and Nallamalasagar proposals failed to summation acceptance, a caller effort was being made nether the Godavari-Cauvery River Linking Project, helium pointed out.
Mr. Rao recalled that Telangana had participated successful respective meetings of the National Water Development Agency (NWDA) arguing that its pending projects based connected its allocated 968 tmc ft stock successful Godavari waters indispensable person each statutory clearances first. It indispensable besides person 50% of h2o diverted done immoderate river-linking project, and immoderate river-linking connection should walk done Telangana territory, peculiarly done Ichampalli oregon Sammakka Sagar to Nagarjunasagar.
The BRS person alleged that the contiguous connection bypasses Telangana wholly by seeking to transportation h2o from Polavaram towards Nallamalasagar and further south. He said the archetypal conception was for h2o to travel from Ichampalli oregon Sammakka Sagar to Nagarjunasagar, and past into the Cauvery basin. Instead, AP attempted to divert the Godavari waters without involving Telangana.
He argued that nether the contiguous proposal, AP would person the benefits of a nationalist task portion Telangana would suffer important aboriginal h2o allocations. Mr. Rao criticised Mr. Revanth Reddy’s reported proposition that Telangana would enactment approvals for the Banakacherla task if clearance was fixed to PRLIS.
He pointed retired that 90 tmc ft of h2o allocated to the Palamuru-Rangareddy task already belongs to Telangana and it would not necessitate immoderate concession to/from AP.
