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The YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) has demanded that the Andhra Pradesh authorities instantly implicit the long-pending Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Project, alleging that the interests of the drought-prone portion are being neglected by the conjugation government.
The request was raised astatine a gathering of the party’s Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Project Action Committee held astatine the YSRCP cardinal bureau successful Tadepalli connected Monday.
Addressing the media later, erstwhile Minister and committee convener Sake Sailajanath alleged that Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu was neglecting irrigation and improvement projects successful the Rayalaseema region. He said the assistance irrigation task was nearing completion, but the authorities had failed to allocate the funds required to marque it operational.
Mr. Sailajanath claimed that astir 90% of the enactment connected the Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Scheme had been completed during the erstwhile YSRCP authorities and that lone constricted further expenditure was needed to decorativeness the remaining works. However, helium alleged that the contiguous authorities had deliberately delayed the task contempt repeated appeals from leaders of the region.
Expressing interest implicit the interaction of upstream projects successful neighbouring Telangana and Karnataka connected the availability of Krishna stream water, helium said Rayalaseema could look terrible h2o shortages successful the aboriginal if the assistance irrigation task was not completed.
The YSRCP person said the enactment would motorboat a run to item the contented and property for the completion of pending irrigation projects crossed Greater Rayalaseema. As portion of the initiative, enactment leaders would sojourn large unfinished projects successful Nellore and Anantapur districts successful the archetypal phase.
YSRCP State coordinator Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy, Kakani Govardhan Reddy and different members of the committee attended the meeting.
