Hyderabad: Vexed with Central Government’s negligence to Telangana’s repeated pleas on comprehensive reassessment of flood analysis and submergence of Bhadrachalam due to Polavaram backwaters, State Government filed a case in Supreme Court, said Finance Minister Harish Rao.
Members from both TRS and Congress parties in the Assembly raised their voice over the threat of Bhadrachalam, including the Lord Sri Rama temple and surrounding areas getting submerged due to backwaters of Polavaram project.
They wanted the five gram panchayats that were merged with Andhra Pradesh back with Telangana. Even to construct the retaining wall around Bhadrachalam to avoid flooding, land was required and it was essential to merge the five villages back with Telangana, said Venkata Veeraiah.
During a short discussion on Central Government failures in implementing the assurances made under AP Reorganisation Act in the House, the Finance Minister said Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao had personally taken up the submergence and increasing the project height issue with Central Government.
During his stint as Irrigation Minister, he had explained about the adverse impacts of Polavaram to the then union Minister of Water Resources Nitin Gadkari.