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Water Resources Minister Nimmala Ramanaidu connected Monday reiterated that the Polavaram–Nallamala Sagar nexus task projected by the Andhra Pradesh authorities would not origin immoderate nonaccomplishment to immoderate State, peculiarly Telangana, and appealed for practice alternatively of controversy.
Responding aft Telangana withdrew its petition successful the Supreme Court pursuing observations by the Chief Justice of India, the Minister said the Andhra Pradesh authorities had consistently maintained that the task was conceived solely for the optimal utilisation of surplus Godavari waters and did not airs immoderate menace to either downstream oregon upstream interests.
Referring to the Supreme Court’s disposal of objections raised by Telangana, Mr. Ramanaidu said some Telugu States should prosper unneurotic and underlined that Andhra Pradesh had ever stood for harmony and communal development. He explained that of the astir 3,000 TMC of Godavari h2o flowing wastefully into the oversea each year, Andhra Pradesh was seeking to utilise lone astir 200 TMC, and urged Telangana to dispel misconceptions and widen cooperation.
The Minister recalled that implicit the past 50 years, astir 1,53,000 TMC of floodwaters from the Godavari had gone discarded into the sea, and expressed interest implicit the continued nonaccomplishment of specified a invaluable earthy resource. He noted that adjacent during the existent year, astir 4,600 TMC of h2o had flowed unused into the sea.
Drawing a comparison, Mr. Ramanaidu said that conscionable arsenic support was granted for the Kaleshwaram task upstream aft State bifurcation, akin support should beryllium accorded to the Polavaram–Nallamala Sagar task downstream. He asserted that Andhra Pradesh’s petition was reasonable, justified and successful accordance with principles of earthy justice.
“If floodwaters astatine Polavaram are utilised, they volition payment Andhra Pradesh. Otherwise, they simply merge into the sea. In specified a situation, determination is perfectly nary question of immoderate nonaccomplishment to Telangana,” helium said.
The Minister besides recalled that erstwhile Telangana undertook the operation of the Kaleshwaram task aft bifurcation, citing the availability of abundant Godavari water, Andhra Pradesh had not objected and had alternatively extended afloat cooperation. He expressed assurance that erstwhile the Polavaram–Nallamala Sagar task is completed, aft gathering Andhra Pradesh’s requirements, it would besides beryllium beneficial to Telangana.
Reiterating the imaginativeness of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, Mr. Ramanaidu said some Telugu States should determination guardant successful a tone of brotherhood, practice and shared progress.
