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Deputy Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar’s bureau has clarified that Karnataka has decided to taxable a “revised DPR” (Detailed Project Report) to the Centre with respect to the Mekedatu balancing reservoir task and not a “fresh DPR” arsenic reported successful these columns connected Tuesday.
In a clarification issued connected Wednesday, K. Jayaprakash, method advisor to the Deputy Chief Minister, said, “Since the earlier DPR submitted to CWC connected January 18, 2019, was formulated based connected the Scheduled Rates of 2018-19 and the aforesaid was not taken up for appraisal by CWC owed to administrative and ineligible constraints, and present the way is wide successful the airy of the Supreme Court’s judgement (November 13, 2025), Karnataka has decided to taxable a revised DPR duly updating the outgo arsenic per the existent Schedule of Rates (2025-26 terms level)”.
He further clarified that “There is simply a request to hole a revised DPR based connected the existent Scheduled Rates. Though the earlier DPR is inactive with CWC, it is yet to beryllium subjected to scrutiny, and was based connected the aged Scheduled rates i.e., that of 2018-19”.
The Deputy Chief Minister’s bureau has present made it wide that the DPR had not been rejected.
