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Cabinet meet to discuss Krishna waters, 2 BHK houses today
Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has convened the cabinet meeting on Friday to discuss the next course of action the government should take in regard to Krishna water board’s rejection of the demand to redistribute Krishna waters.
Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has convened the cabinet meeting on Friday to discuss the next course of action the government should take in regard to Krishna water board’s rejection of the demand to redistribute Krishna waters.
The government is of the opinion that project-wise allocations and release of water during drought period between the two States is not acceptable to Telangana.
While some experts feel that the State government should approach the Supreme Court against the tribunal verdict on Section 89 as Krishna Basin was one large unit and any redistribution of water should take place among all the four riparian States instead of just the TS and AP as felt fit by the tribunal, T Hanumantha Rao, an expert on irrigation matters and former engineer-in-chief told ‘The Hans India’ that the government should insist on the tribunal cancelling the additional allocations it had made to the upper riparian States – Maharashtra and Karnataka.
The tribunal had allocated 254 tmcft of surplus waters to the upper riparian States at the time of giving the award. If both the upper riparian States utilise this quantity, then the two Telugu States will face much more serious problem. The two Telugu States were not getting even the full quantum of the allocated waters, he said.
Another important issue the cabinet is likely to discuss is the construction of the new Secretariat building. The government wants to put pressure on the AP government to hand over the buildings which it had already vacated so that it can demolish them and start construction of new buildings.
The cabinet is also slated to review the progress of the 2BHK houses. It may be recalled that although the government had called for tenders, the response has been lukewarm as the contractors did not think it was feasible to take up the contract at the rates fixed by the government and wanted that the unit cost to be more than Rs 10 lakh. The government had fixed Rs 7 lakh per unit for G+3 flats and Rs 7.9 lakh per unit for G+9 flats.
The cabinet is also likely to examine the possibility of carrying out changes to houses which were constructed under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and VAMBAY schemes and convert them into two-bedroom houses, with a final decision on the increase of the unit cost of new houses pending.
