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No proposal to shift Mannavaram Project, says Minister
Speaking to the media here on Saturday, Reddy said that the opposition parties were deliberately indulging in a disinformation campaign on the multi-crore project to malign the TDP government and also create confusion among the people of Chittoor district more so in the Srikalahasti area where the project was located (in Yerpedumandal of the constituency).
Tirupati: Forest and Environment Minister B Gopalakrishna Reddy stoutly denied the shifting of the NBPPL project popularly known as Mannavaram project to another State.
Speaking to the media here on Saturday, Reddy said that the opposition parties were deliberately indulging in a disinformation campaign on the multi-crore project to malign the TDP government and also create confusion among the people of Chittoor district more so in the Srikalahasti area where the project was located (in Yerpedumandal of the constituency).
Apparently reacting to YSR Congress party which launched a three-day Padayatra in Srikalahasti to Mannavaram on Friday and also the opposition parties making the project a burning issue, the Minister said that opposition parties were twisting the truth and exploiting the project’s adverse condition as a weapon to hit out at the ruling TDP government.
“As an MLA of the area and also the Minister from the constituency, I want to clarify that there is not even an iota of truth in the opposition propaganda about the project being shifted. There is no question of the project shifting to other place.”
The Minister however was candid enough to reveal that the project set up for manufacturing of power generation equipment like boilers, turbines etc. is in difficulty with no market for its products forcing it to slow down.
The opposition parties were exploiting it to the hilt to get political mileage which he said was nothing but below-the-belt tactics. He said that Union Minister and senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu had already taken up the project issue and held meeting with the higher officials concerned and representing NTPC,
BHEL and Union Power Minister and officials to rejuvenate the project for its revival. Irrigation Minister Devineni Uma Maheswara Rao, local MLA M Suguna, TDP city president Dampuri Bhaskar and others were present.
