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The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) warned connected Friday that it volition instrumentality to the streets if the interests of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) successful Odisha’s Malkangiri territory are compromised by the Polavaram irrigation project, which the Opposition enactment alleges is progressing without “valid biology clearances” from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change for its revised parameters.
Addressing a property conference, elder BJD vicepresident Debi Prasad Mishra said arsenic per the Godavari Water Disputes Tribunal, the project’s specifications included a flood discharge capableness of 36 lakh cusecs, a dam tallness of 140 feet, and a maximum flood discharge level of 150 feet.
“The maximum submergence level astatine Konta point, wherever the Saberi and Sileru rivers meet, was fixed astatine 174.22 feet. However, successful 2006, the task was unilaterally revised to a flood discharge capableness of 50 lakh cusecs without consulting affected States, including Odisha, connected its impact,” helium said.
Mr. Mishra said that the Ministry had repeatedly kept its ‘Stop Work Order’ successful abeyance without conducting immoderate nationalist proceeding successful Odisha’s affected areas, contempt statutory requirements. Odisha has besides moved the Supreme Court challenging assorted clearances granted to the task successful usurpation of biology norms.
He said the Andhra Pradesh government’s backwater study, based connected the revised 50 lakh cusec capacity, placed the submergence level astatine Konta astatine 220 feet. A survey by IIT Roorkee, commissioned by the Odisha government, estimated the discharge astatine 58 lakh cusecs and projected the submergence level astatine 232 feet. The BJD has demanded a caller study.
