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TS objects to Pattiseema
The Pattiseema Lift Irrigation Project is likely to become a bone of contention between the two Telugu-speaking states. With the Andhra Pradesh government expediting the project to be completed within a year’s time, the Telangana government expressed its concerns.While the main opposition in Andhra Pradesh YSRCP is strongly opposing the project,
The Godavari river on which the project is being contemplated is an inter-state river. The Telangana State has to get additional allocation of Krishna water if Godavari water were to be diverted to Krishna through this project as per the Bachawat award
Hyderabad: The Pattiseema Lift Irrigation Project is likely to become a bone of contention between the two Telugu-speaking states. With the Andhra Pradesh government expediting the project to be completed within a year’s time, the Telangana government expressed its concerns.While the main opposition in Andhra Pradesh YSRCP is strongly opposing the project, the Telangana government too has expressed its strong objection.
Minister for Irrigation in Telangana government T Harish Rao, while replying to a question raised by Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy in the Telangana Legislative Council on Thursday, said that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu was acting in a unilateral manner. Rebutting the claim of Naidu in the AP Assembly on Wednesday that his government need not consult any neighbouring States to proceed on this project, Harish Rao said that the Godavari river on which the project is being contemplated was an inter-state river.
The Telangana state has to get additional allocation of Krishna water if Godavari waters were to be diverted to Krishna with this project as per the Bachawat award. The TS government would go to any extent to oppose the move by Andhra Pradesh to increase the height of Polavaram project, the minister added. Referring to the GO issued by Andhra Pradesh government in January on Pattiseema, Harish Rao said that Naidu is misleading even the people of Andhra Pradesh. While the GO states that Pattiseema is part of Polavaram, Naidu claimed in the Assembly that the two projects have no relation, Telangana irrigation minister argued.
He further stated that as per the State Reorganisation Act too, Telangana would have stakes on any project constructed on Krishna and Godavari rivers. However, AP minister for Irrigation Devineni Umamaheswara Rao told The Hans India that the Pattiseema project was well within the frame work of Krishna and Godavari Tribunal Awards.
While the Polavaram project is a permanent project which was cleared by the Central Water Commission (CWC) in 2009, Pattiseema is only a temporary project to accrue early benefits of the Polavaram aycut until the completion of the Polavaram, he clarified. The Polavaram project is meant to provide irrigation facilities to 7.20 lakh acres by gravity through Right Main Canal (RMC) and Left Main Canal (LMC). It was on this RMC that the Andhra Pradesh government has proposed the PLIP to utilise flood water in the next flood season which otherwise flows into sea.
