Polavaram to be completed before Godavari Pushkarams, says Nimmala

Polavaram Irrigation Project is simply a ‘modern temple of Andhra Pradesh’, and the State authorities is making plans to implicit the task earlier the commencement of the Godavari Pushkarams, Water Resources Minister Nimmala Ramanaidu has said.

Mr. Ramanaidu visited the Polavaram task tract connected Tuesday, inspected the ongoing works and reviewed the advancement with engineering experts and Irrigation Department officials.

Speaking to the media later, helium said completion of the task would guarantee that the waters of the Godavari scope Rayalaseema arsenic good arsenic the North Andhra region. He said the authorities was committed to completing Polavaram and different irrigation projects successful North Andhra and Rayalaseema, and had prepared an enactment program for the same.

Mr. Ramanaidu said the NDA government, some successful the past and now, had prioritised the irrigation assemblage and would not compromise connected the prime of works. He alleged that the diaphragm partition of the Polavaram task had been damaged during the erstwhile government’s tenure. Instead of repairing the damaged structure, the contiguous authorities had decided to conception a caller diaphragm partition to guarantee the prime and agelong word stableness of the project.