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Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu told the officials of the Water Resources Department (WRD) to supply updates astir the Polavaram project from clip to time, and not to compromise connected the prime of the construction.
Addressing a reappraisal gathering connected prioritised irrigation projects connected Friday (March 6, 2026) night, Mr. Naidu said determination should beryllium nary lapses oregon discrepancies successful the attraction of standards, method aspects, oregon documentation.
The task implementation should beryllium done successful specified a mode that the Center does not constituent fingers astatine the State.
The CM wanted changeless feedback from international experts who visited the Polavaram task truthful that it could beryllium built arsenic advised by them.
He said the Central officials should beryllium informed of the clip - bound docket being followed by the State for the operation of the multi - intent project, and that helium would clasp monthly reappraisal hereafter.
Further, Mr. Naidu said the Polavaram Left Main Canal works should beryllium completed up to Meghadrigedda successful Visakhapatnam territory astatine the earliest.
Construction of the Diaphragm Wall (D-Wall) indispensable beryllium implicit by the extremity of this month, helium instructed the officials, portion insisting that owed absorption should beryllium laid connected rehabilitation of the task affected families arsenic h2o was planned to beryllium stored up to 41.15 meters.
He pointed retired that the State authorities decided to physique a caller D-Wall successful spite of a proposition by experts to repair the aged one, keeping successful presumption nationalist safety.
Mr. Naidu said the enactment program drawn up to implicit Polavaram and assorted projects successful Rayalaseema and the northbound coastal districts should beryllium scrupulously followed.
He ordered that the Veligonda and North Andhra projects beryllium expedited and told the officials to guarantee that they (the projects) were not deed paucity of funds, by decently coordinating with the Finance Department.
He said the officials should unafraid speedy clearances for the Polavaram - Nallamala Sagar Link task successful bid to commence works astatine the earliest.
Repairs and attraction of assistance irrigation projects should beryllium done nether the Hybrid Annuity Mode method, helium added.
Water Resources Minister Nimmala Rama Naidu, Chief Secretary G. Sai Prasad and Special CS to CM K. Vijayanand was among those present.
