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HYDERABAD
Senior person of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi and erstwhile curate for irrigation T. Harish Rao has sounded a superior informing connected the impending menace posed by the Polavaram-Banakacherla Link Project (PBLP) being taken up “illegally” by Andhra Pradesh to divert a immense quantity of Godavari h2o to the Krishna and Penna Basins, undermining the rights of Telangana implicit Godavari waters.
Addressing a property league present connected Saturday, helium accused some the BJP-led authorities astatine the Centre and the Congress authorities successful the State of negligence and complicity successful the substance that could harm the riparian rights of Telangana forever, if A.P. was allowed to go-ahead with PBLP.
He explained that BRS had been raising concerns implicit the AP’s plans clip and again. The A.P. government, with the progressive practice of the BJP astatine the Centre, was moving up by clearing each hurdles. The missive addressed by Union Minister of Jal Shakti C.R. Patil to Chief Minister Revanth Reddy connected September 23 intelligibly indicates that the (Pre-Feasibility Report) of PBLP was nether techno-economic appraisal and the support process was nether way, helium claimed.
“Nearly 20 days person passed, yet Mr. Revanth Reddy has not opposed it. Instead of questioning however a DPR could beryllium based connected floodwaters, which is prohibited by the Central Water Commission (CWC) norms, he’s remaining silent. Karnataka had reacted powerfully to the AP’s plans successful its September 17 missive to the MoJS, informing that it would artifact 112 tmc ft of Krishna h2o if the task was allowed. This would enactment Telangana successful a precarious concern arsenic Karnataka would clasp Krishna h2o and A.P. would instrumentality distant Godavari water.
He pointed retired that Maharashtra excessively had addressed a strongly-worded letter, opposing the usage of floodwater for PBLP.
