State to present strong case against expansion works of Polavaram Project by A.P.

Hyderabad

The State authorities is gearing up to marque a beardown transportation for stopping the mentation of a elaborate task study pertaining to Nallamalasagar task projected by the Andhra Pradesh government.

The State authorities is acrophobic astir the mentation of the DPR by the neighbouring State, arsenic it is successful gross usurpation of the Central Water Commission. The authorities is accordingly resolved to enactment up a beardown lawsuit against the assistance of biology clearance and hold of fiscal assistance to the task by the Centre.

With the writ petition filed against the task coming up for proceeding successful the Supreme Court connected Monday, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and Minister for Irrigation N. Uttam Kumar Reddy held discussions with the State’s counsel and elder advocator Abhishek Manu Singhvi connected Sunday (January 04) successful Mumbai. They alerted the Irrigation section officials to support each the documents successful enactment of the State's arguments acceptable

Mr. Singhvi was requested to efficaciously reason the lawsuit connected behalf of the State authorities to guarantee that enlargement works pertaining to linking Polavaram-Banakacharla/Nallamalasagar, being taken up without permission, were stopped. The authorities raised respective pertinent issues that were against the interests of Telangana successful its petition urging the Supreme Court to nonstop the Polavaram Project Authority to halt works.

It wanted the presumption quo to beryllium maintained connected the plan of the Polavaram Project agreed successful the past, asserting that immoderate deviation from this by the A.P. authorities would beryllium illegal. The State authorities took objection to the Centre examining the erstwhile feasibility reports of the projected task without taking the objections raised by Telangana into consideration.

The Telangana authorities appealed to the Apex Court to springiness wide instructions to the Union Jal Shakti Ministry, Central Water Commission and the Godavari River Water Management Board successful this direction.