Telugu States need to avoid disputes over sharing of water, says Chandrababu Naidu

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has said helium is not acceptable for disputes with neighbouring Telangana implicit sharing the Godavari stream h2o arsenic helium is keen to reap benefits for Andhra Pradesh with judicious usage of water.

Addressing the gathering of farmers during ‘Mee Bhoomi – Mee Hakku’ astatine Rayavaram colony successful Mandapeta Assembly constituency successful East Godavari territory connected Friday, Mr. Chandrababu Naidu said, “The Telugu States volition reap nary payment if they get progressive successful disputes implicit h2o sharing.”

“The Opposition successful the State wants disputes implicit water. However, I similar h2o alternatively than disputes implicit water. The projected interlinking of rivers volition beryllium imaginable lone aft Polavaram irrigation task is commissioned. In future, Telangana volition besides payment from the interlinking of rivers,” said Mr. Chandrababu Naidu.

“I volition strive for the payment of the radical of Andhra Pradesh. Godavari stream is simply a immense root of water. The Opposition lamented that Pattiseema Lift Irrigation strategy volition marque the Godavari portion a desert. But successful reality, it enabled proviso of h2o from Srisailam to drought-prone Rayalaseema and volition assistance it look arsenic a hub for horticulture,” the Chief Minister said.

Mr. Naidu further claimed that helium would strive for making the Rayalaseema portion a horticulture hub for the full country. There would beryllium nary scarcity of h2o successful the full Godavari portion and Visakhapatnam if the Polavaram irrigation task is commissioned and would besides pb to further linking of the Vamsadhara river.

Land issues

Talking astir quality redressal, helium said 80% of the grievances are from the Revenue Department, and appealed to families not to get into disputes oregon ineligible battles implicit land.

“The mistakes successful implicit 1.18 lakh passbooks person been corrected based connected the re-survey and implicit 2.79 lakh grievances pertaining to onshore records person been addressed and disposed of,” Mr. Naidu said.

The ongoing organisation of pattadar passbooks nether Mee Bhumi - Mee Hakku would warrant documentation of onshore records without immoderate quality permanently, helium added.

Aerial survey

Later, Mr. Chandrababu Naidu conducted an aerial survey of the Mori-5 well, owned by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, successful Malkipuram mandal of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema district. On January 5, a blowout of earthy state was reported successful the good during the workover workout and it was mostly contained by Friday.

Mr. Naidu inquired astir the situation interaction and harm to the section ecosystem owed to blowout during an enactment with the ONGC authorities.

In an authoritative release, ONGC Rajahmundry Asset authorities person claimed that the Mori-5 good caput country has been accessed by Friday to velocity up the capping of the good arsenic portion of the blowout enactment plan.