BRS govt. never asked for water allocation to PRLIS even after spending ₹27,000 crore: Uttam

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HYDERABAD

Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has stated that the erstwhile Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Government did not make adjacent an acre of irrigation imaginable nether the Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS) adjacent aft spending ₹27,000 crore connected it.

Addressing a property league present connected Tuesday, helium said the Congress Government had spent ₹7,000 crore connected it during the past 2 years and BRS leaders including its president K. Chandrasekhar Rao were lying connected clearances for the project. The task had secured nary clearances truthful acold and the speech of T. Harish Rao that the authorities had accepted for 45 tmc ft usage nether the task was besides a lie.

The BRS Government that spent ₹1.83 lakh crore connected the irrigation assemblage during its regularisation had not created adjacent 1 acre of irrigation potential, helium noted and said immoderate h2o was fixed was nether the projects constructed during the combined Andhra Pradesh rule. He alleged that KCR had cooperated with AP’s h2o theft with the Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Scheme, which was stalled by the Congress Government later.

Further, helium pointed retired that the BRS Government did not inquire for h2o allocation to PRLIS, Dindi Lift Irrigation Scheme and Srisailam Left Bank Canal task successful the h2o requirements sent to the Centre successful 2020. He assured that the Congress Government was committed to implicit the SLBC task implicit the adjacent 3 years.

Published - December 23, 2025 09:19 p.m. IST

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