River water activist V Prakash Rao said there is no need for an EOI or fresh tenders for KLIP rehabilitation. Only the Medigadda barrage block needs repair. He linked delays to politics and called the EOI an election gimmick.
Irrigation expert V Prakash Rao said the Ghose Commission report on KLIS pointed to procedural and technical lapses but made no mention of corruption. He defended the project’s cost escalation as justified and asked Kavitha to prove her graft allegations
The National Dam Safety Authority remained indifferent to warnings raised by Telangana’s engineering department about the worsening state of the dam’s plunge pool, says Prakash Rao
Critics argue that the NDSA report was designed to benefit the ruling party at the Centre, with allegations on planning, design, construction quality, and management errors.
Deposing before the Judicial Commission headed by Justice P C Ghose probing into the construction issues of the Kaleshwaram Irrigation project, he explained that the availability of water in Godavari at Tammidihatti would be far less than the water yield expected from the original design of the Kaleshwaram Project.
'People in Maharashtra have been rolling out red carpet welcoming the BRS mainly because they had lost hope on the political parties that ruled them for the last 17 years'
