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AP sees no role for TS in Polavaram Authority
AP sees no role for TS in Polavaram Authority, The Chief Minister also set a time bound programme for the project and wanted its commission in another four years.
- Writes to Central government
- Naidu wants project to be completed in 4 years
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh government wants Telangana out of Polavaram Project Authority, a special purpose vehicle, launched for developing multi-purpose Polavaram project and dashed off a letter to the Central government recently.
The special purpose vehicle has members to be drawn from both the States and Central Water Commission. But now as all the villages to be merged under the project have come under the jurisdiction of Andhra Pradesh, the Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu felt that there was no need of Telangana government presence in the project.
The Chief Minister also set a time bound programme for the project and wanted its commission in another four years.
The Technical Advisory Committee having members drawn from different departments has to be formed with the approval of Planning Commission, after which the work would be speeded up, said a senior official talking to The Hans India on Friday.
He said there were no legal hassles involved in the ongoing project work. Though Chhattisgarh and Odisha governments approached the Supreme Court, the court did not issue any stay orders stalling the work. Stating that the project cost had gone up to Rs 16,000 crore, the official said the Centre has agreed to reimburse the entire Rs 5,000 crore spent so far by the State government and offered to complete the project as wanted by the Andhra Pradesh government. “This is a unique project in the country. The Centre will bear the entire cost of the project unlike other national projects for which the Centre spent 90 per cent of the project cost and the remaining by the State governments,” said the official.
“When completed, this will be the first river merge multipurpose project in India,” the official informed.
The project reservoir will have a live storage 75.2 tmcft and gross storage 194 tmcft thereby enabling irrigation of 23,20,000 acre (including stabilisation of existing irrigated lands) in Krishna, East and West Godavari, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts.
