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The Alochanaparula Vedika (Thinkers’ Forum) connected Saturday (January 10, 2026) urged the Andhra Pradesh authorities to denote a clear, time-bound programme to implicit ongoing and pending irrigation projects, cautioning against governmental mudslinging betwixt Andhra Pradesh and Telangana implicit h2o issues.
Addressing a property conference, Forum convener T. Lakshminarayana, retired IPS serviceman A.B. Venkateswara Rao, Rythu Seva Samstha typical Akkineni Bhavani Prasad, and Centre for Liberty president Nalamothu Chakravarthi said that the State authorities inactive had capable time, with 3 much yearly budgets earlier the 2029 wide elections, to reconstruct nationalist assurance successful the irrigation sector.
The Forum demanded that the authorities spot a elaborate information expanse successful the nationalist domain, outlining the presumption of irrigation projects, timelines for completion, money requirements, and budgetary commitments for the adjacent 3 years. They sought circumstantial assurances connected large projects specified arsenic the Srisailam Right Branch Canal, Telugu Ganga, Galeru–Nagari Sujala Sravanti, Handri Neeva, and Polavaram. Excluding Polavaram, a nationalist project, the Forum said it had written to Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu seeking clarity connected each State irrigation projects.
The speakers said that tract visits revealed that galore projects were stalled owed to inadequate money releases and the lack of project-specific budgetary allocations, informing that delays would persist without focused fiscal planning.
The Forum criticised governmental enactment successful some Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for engaging successful accusations and counter-accusations implicit irrigation projects, including the Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Scheme and Telangana’s Palamuru–Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme. Both projects, they alleged, lacked statutory clearances and permissions, yet were repeatedly utilized arsenic governmental tools to stoke determination sentiments and deflect attraction from governance failures.
Calling connected the nationalist not to autumn prey to governmental rhetoric, the Forum alleged that successive governments successful some States had spent hundreds of crores of rupees connected unapproved assistance irrigation schemes portion neglecting long-pending projects specified arsenic Telugu Ganga. It asserted that completing existing projects would beryllium capable to code irrigation needs, if pursued with seriousness and accountability.
