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Telangana Irrigation Minister Uttam Kumar Reddy said the Polavaram-Nallamalla task was not lone opposed by Telangana but besides by Maharashtra and Karnataka.
In an informal enactment with the media successful the Assembly connected Monday (January 5, 2026), helium asserted that the Telangana authorities is firmly opposing the Polavaram–Nallamala Sagar task successful each disposable forums, stating that it violates inter-State stream h2o regulations.
Mr. Reddy clarified that the missive being cited by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) person T. Harish Rao had nary relevance to the contiguous issue, arsenic it was simply a notation of h2o availability. He said that the Telangana authorities had already written to the Godavari River Management Board (GRMB), intelligibly conveying that the Polavaram–Nallamala task contravenes inter-state norms. He added that GRMB had besides supported Telangana’s basal connected the matter.
He said elder advocator Abhishek Singhvi has been asked to contiguous beardown arguments earlier the Supreme Court. The Apex court, helium said, has adjourned the lawsuit to adjacent Monday and suggested that the substance beryllium pursued done a suit petition alternatively than a writ petition. The State volition question a enactment connected the task during the adjacent hearing, which, Mr. Reddy said, helium would be personally.
Regarding the Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Scheme, the Minister stated that the works were halted lone aft the Congress Government assumed bureau successful Telangana, arsenic revealed by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy.
Dismissing the Opposition’s claims, helium questioned wherefore the erstwhile BRS authorities had remained soundless if the task had so been stopped during its regime. He contended that unit exerted by the Telangana authorities forced Andhra Pradesh to halt the works.
Mr. Reddy besides attacked the BRS, alleging that during its tenure determination was “more over-smartness and little work” connected Krishna and Godavari stream h2o management. He accused the erstwhile authorities of causing monolithic losses to Telangana by altering large task designs, including shifting the Palamuru–Rangareddy task from Jurala to Srisailam and modifying the Kaleshwaram task from Tummidihatti to Medigadda.
