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HYDERABAD
Ahead of the January 30 gathering with apical officials of the Water Resources section of Andhra Pradesh, the Telangana authorities has addressed a missive to the Secretary of Ministry of Jal Shakti earlier this month, seeking directions to A.P. to halt the ‘illegal operation and mentation of elaborate task study (DPR) of the Polavaram-Nallamalasagar/Banakacherla Link Project (PNLP/PBLP)’.
In the missive addressed to the Secretary of MoJS V.L. Kantha Rao, Principal Secretary (Irrigation) of Telangana Rahul Bojja sought steadfast enactment against A.P. for going up with PNLP/PBLP against the guidelines of the Central Water Commission (CWC). He reminded the erstwhile that Telangana had rejected inclusion of PBLP/PNLP arsenic a portion of the docket for constitution of the officials committee to sermon the contentious stream h2o issues.
The Telangana authoritative said the State had objected to inclusion of PBLP/PNLP successful the docket earlier and during the July 16, 2025 gathering of the officials and Chief Ministers of the 2 States. However, the State of A.P. is proceeding with amerciable activities of operation and mentation of DPR against the instructions of MoJS.
(Interestingly, portion Telangana denied discussing PBLP/PNLP astatine the July 16 meeting, Minister for Water Resources of A.P. was connected grounds to authorities that the contented was discussed and the committee projected past was to transportation connected the discussions further connected PBLP/PNLP and different contentious stream h2o issues betwixt the 2 States.)
Telangana had communicated a missive connected December 23 past suggesting members of the officials committee (for the January 30 meeting) to resoluteness different h2o issues. “Further, it is understood that A.P. is proceeding up with the mentation of DPR of PBLP/PNLP and the CWC is proceeding up with appraisal of its pre-feasibility study (PFR), 1 of the main concerns raised by Telangana,” Mr. Bojja said successful the missive and added that ‘the process is starring to fait accompli concern successful respect of the project’.
He made it wide that the Government of Telangana is constrained to pass that it shall enactment successful the meetings of the 2 States’ officials committee headed by the Chairman of CWC, lone if the process of mentation of DPR of the PBLP/PNLP and it’s amerciable operation by A.P. and the process of appraisal of PFR by the CWC is halted/stopped.
Telangana besides reserves its rights to avail the ineligible remedies disposable to it successful the matter, the Principal Secretary (Irrigation) stated.
