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The State government has written to the CWC to initiate immediate steps to address the concerns raised by it over the impact of the Polavaram Project backwaters.
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Ambati Rambabu said that the Polavaram project was delayed only due to the mistakes committed by the previous Telugu Desam Party government under N. Chandrababu Naidu.
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The State Engineer-in-Chief C Muralidhar wrote to the CEO of the Polavarm project as well as the CWC insisting on the need to keep all the 48 gates of the project and sluices open all through the water year
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Reviewing the progress of the dam at the project site at Polavaram, Jagan said it was natural that some minor problems would crop up during construction of projects which had to be set right at every stage to move ahead
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The Polavaram project construction was put on hold after the diaphragm wall was severely damaged by huge floods in 2019 and 2020.
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Member Secretary of PPA M Raghuram wrote a letter to the principal secretary of Water Resources Department of AP urging him to cooperate with TS government in completing the joint survey
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Hyderabad: Telangana State has stated that the backwater levels of Polavaram project impacting the Bhadrachalam town and surrounding villages would become a common phenomenon once the project was completed and water was stored at the Full Reservoir Level (FRL). Telangana engineer-in-chief (irrigation) C Muralidhar, who attended the Polavaram Project Authority (PPA) meeting here on Wednesday, […]
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The State government insisted for a third party study on the impact of the Polavaram project on the villages abutting the backwaters
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The Legislative Council members also demanded the Centre extend immediate financial assistance to Telangana for the damages suffered due to the Godavari floods in July this year.
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New Delhi: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday called on Union Minister Amit Shah and discussed various issues concerning the state, including raising its borrowing limit and funds for the Polavaram Project. According to official sources, Reddy during the meeting reiterated the state government’s demand to restore the net borrowing […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana raised objection against the Andhra Pradesh government taking up construction of a new Lift Irrigation Scheme (LIS) from the dead storage of Polavaram project. It had sought the Godavari River Management Board to intervene and take necessary action immediately, as per the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act. In a letter to […]
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Visakhapatnam: Former MP Vundavalli Arun Kumar has expressed surprise as to why Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy was not handing over the Polavaram project to the Centre. Talking to media persons here on Friday, he recalled that Jagan, while in the Opposition, had questioned Chandrababu Naidu for taking over the Polavaram project which was the […]
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Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy has exuded confidence that the prestigious Polavaram project would be completed by Kharif season in 2023. Participating in a discussion on the project in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly here on Tuesday, he said the approval of the designs by the CWC was being awaited which the […]
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With almost no contribution, the party is trying to create an impression that it is the next big thing in Telangana
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Hyderabad: TRS working president and MAUD Minister K T Rama Rao on Wednesday ridiculed the BJP and Congress MPs baseless allegations against Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and State Cabinet members, instead of speaking on issues. “While one MP terms us as rice smugglers, another MP speaks about a Rs 10,000 crore scam in Covid-19 […]
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Bhadrachalam: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s statement made on Friday in the State Assembly on the efforts to demerge five Gram Panchayats of the seven mandals merged with AP, has brought cheers to the locals. It may be recalled that after the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh State, many villages of Chintoor, Kunavaram, VR Puram, Burgampadu, […]
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Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao assured that measures would be taken for demerger of five of the seven mandals of erstwhile Khammam district that were merged with Andhra Pradesh to facilitate construction of Polavaram project. He said the seven mandals were merged with Andhra Pradesh in a hasty manner and as a result, a […]
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Visakhapatnam: BJP State president Somu Veerraju has advised the Andhra Pradesh government to complete the pending projects in the State. Addressing a round table conference on ‘Resources-challenges in AP’ here on Sunday, he stated that there were many projects pending for the past 30 years in the state. The Centre had given Rs.11,000 crore for […]
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The Polavaram project is an under-construction multi-purpose irrigation National project on the Godavari River in the West Godavari District and East Godavari District in the state.
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Telangana demolishes AP's contention that the lift irrigation scheme is a temporary project
