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HYDERABAD
The Telangana authorities connected Tuesday filed a writ petition successful the Supreme Court seeking directions to restrain Andhra Pradesh and its agencies from proceeding with the mentation of a elaborate task study (DPR), taking up the process of tenders and execution of the Polavaram-Banakacherla/Nallamalasagar Link Project (PBLP/PNLP).
In the petition, it has besides prayed to forestall A.P. from going up with the plans of associated capableness expansions of Polavaram task and besides halt regulating agencies specified arsenic the Central Water Commission, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change, Polavaram Project Authority, Godavari and Krishna River Management Boards from appraising the pre-feasibility study and DPR of the PNLP.
Further, it has requested the Apex Court to nonstop the agencies acrophobic from granting clearances and approvals and releasing funds for the impugned task PNLP and unapproved expansions of Polavaram project, pending a lawful and inter-State ailment process. A.P.’s plans of taking up PNLP and Polavaram task enlargement is successful usurpation of binding Tribunal Awards and AP State Reorganisation Act, the Telangana authorities stated successful the petition.
Against the support for diversion of 80 tmc ft h2o from Polavaram task to Krishna stream done the former’s canal strategy for usage successful the Krishna Delta, the A.P. authorities was expanding the task infrastructure to transportation an further 200 tmc ft h2o further intended to summation it to 300 tmc ft a twelvemonth to Krishna stream and beyond done PBLP/PNLP without immoderate approvals, the petition explained.
The petition brought to the Supreme Court’s announcement that A.P. has already undertaken the Polavaram enlargement for PNLP and thereafter submitted its pre-feasibility study to CWC. Without adjacent waiting for the CWC’s consent, a prerequisite to hole DPR arsenic per existing guidelines and contempt instructions of CWC not to instrumentality up DPR, A.P. has floated tenders, completed method bids and taken up fiscal bids connected December 17.
Telangana has further brought to the Apex Court’s announcement done the petition that the appraisal of PFR of the impugned task based connected flood waters by the CWC is itself contrary to the guidelines of CWC and MoJS. “The petition is astir enforcement of the binding Award of GWDT arsenic the enforcement actions of A.P. are successful usurpation of the aforesaid and it’s not a h2o quality and it’s purely ineligible to beryllium taken up by the court”, Telangana prayed.
The MoJS and CWC person already sensitised A.P. against its amerciable actions but the second is vehement successful its illegalities and it warrants judicial involution arsenic neither the PPA nor GRMB, having authorization to injuct/prohibit A.P. from proceeding with the amerciable action, are acting and forced Telangana to determination the Apex Court, Telangana said successful the petition.
