On Friday, all the states within the Godavari basin unanimously agreed, in principle, to proceed with two crucial components of Phase I in the Interlinking of Rivers Project. A near-consensus was achieved during the NWDA task force meeting at Jala Soudha.
Engineer-in-Chief C Muralidhar wrote to NWDA asking it to consider the proposal only after the completion or at least active construction of the Mahanadi- Godavari link of Inter-Linking of Rivers project in due course.