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Reiterating that h2o information was important for improvement of the State, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said the authorities was duly focused connected intra-linking of rivers, from the Vamsadhara to the Penna, arsenic an contiguous precedence arsenic portion of its micro-management strategy.
The adjacent happening would beryllium the overmuch larger task of linking the Godavari and the Krishna rivers, helium said, portion stressing the request for States to stock stream waters amicably.
He specifically said that the absorption from Telangana to the Polavaram-Nallamala Sagar task was unjustifiable arsenic Andhra Pradesh (A.P.) intended to utilise lone the flood waters that travel into the sea. He pointed retired that arsenic the little riparian State, A.P. did not entity to the Kaleshwaram project.
Making a connection during a treatment connected the request for grants to Water Resources Department successful the Legislative Assembly connected Thursday, Mr. Chandrababu Naidu suggested that the colossal wastage of the Godavari stream h2o should beryllium curbed by tapping it to the grade possible.
The Chief Minister recalled that the Task Force connected Inter-Linking of Rivers that was headed by Suresh Prabhu mode backmost successful 2002 did immoderate large enactment to instrumentality the ambitious task of linking the peninsular rivers but it did not marque the desired advancement aft the Congress-led UPA took implicit the reins successful 2004.
He asserted that the Polavaram task would beryllium completed earlier the commencement of the Godavari Pushkarams successful 2027.
Mr. Naidu recalled that the recognition for supplying the Krishna stream h2o to Chennai done the Telugu Ganga task goes to N.T. Rama Rao, whose imaginativeness gave signifier to astir of the projects being discussed now. Neither the Congress nor the YSR Congress Party had immoderate relation successful the operation of those projects, helium claimed.
Veligonda project
Further, Mr. Chandrababu Naidu said the authorities was committed to supplying h2o from the Veligonda Phase-I task by July and that the Pattiseema task helped successful irrigating lakhs of hectares successful the Krishna delta too taking h2o to Rayalaseema.
A sum of ₹2,000 crore was being spent connected 11 projects successful the Uttarandhra region, and steps were taken to committee the Chintalapudi assistance strategy astatine the earliest.
The Water Users’ Associations were assigned the task of managing the h2o resources astatine their disposal to lend to h2o security, Mr. Naidu said, adding that the eventual extremity was to marque Andhra Pradesh a drought-proof State.
