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Irrigation and Civil Supplies Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has criticised the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and erstwhile curate for irrigation T. Harish Rao for spreading lies repeatedly connected the State Government’s combat to support the rightful stock of Telangana successful stream waters.
They were doing truthful with misgiving that if a mendacious spoken repeatedly would beryllium believed arsenic truth, the curate said addressing a property league virtually connected Friday to antagonistic the allegations of Mr. Harish Rao stating that the Congress Government was keeping quiescent connected the Andhra Pradesh’s plans to utilise adjacent Telangana’s stock of waters successful the Krishna and Godavari Basins.
“We won’t forego adjacent 1 driblet of Telangana’s rightful stock successful Krishna and Godavari Basins and we are warring with each our mightiness to protests the State’s interests and halt AP’s plans to instrumentality distant h2o by raising the contented astatine antithetic fora specified arsenic tribunals, courts and the Central Government,” helium asserted.
On the Polavaram-Nallamalasagar Link Project (PNLP), helium stated that Union Minister of Jal Shakti had written to him (Mr. Reddy) connected January 29 stating that the Centre and immoderate of its agencies did not springiness immoderate clearance including for pre-feasibility study of the task and the PFR submitted by AP to the Central Water Commission (CWC) was sent to different riparian States for their comments and views. Even the CWC Chairman had written the aforesaid to the State Government successful December.
On Friday’s gathering successful Delhi attended by authorities of the irrigation/water resources departments of AP and Telangana and chaired by CWC Chairman, the Minister for Irrigation said the State Government would clasp discussions with anybody to support the rights of Telangana. The Telangana officials opposed inclusion of PNLP successful the docket of Friday’s gathering and discussed lone different projects of Telangana halted owed to inter-state issues.
When asked astir the Economic Survey study complimenting Kaleshwaram and Mission Kakatiya projects for expanding the country nether irrigation, Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy feigned ignorance and said helium did not cognize wherefore the Centre highlighted it. Of the ₹17 lakh crore fund successful 10 years of BRS rule, they had spent ₹1.8 lakh crore connected the irrigation assemblage but had failed to implicit adjacent 1 project.
The Kaleshwaram task designed and constructed by BRS had collapsed and lone 160 tmc ft h2o was lifted betwixt 2019 and 2023. Of it, astir 90 tmc ft was fto into oversea again owed to flood. They did not implicit Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme aft spending ₹27,500 crore and Sita Rama Lift Irrigation Project by sparing ₹8,500 crore oregon ongoing projects similar Koilsagar, Bhima, Dindi, Srisailam Left Bank Canal and others.
The Minister besides justified having retired bureaucrat Adityanath Das arsenic Advisor (Irrigation) stating that helium was a competent serviceman to correspond Telangana’s interests and it was the government’s close to name immoderate competent idiosyncratic for the post.
