Will discuss Polavaram with AP: Uma Bharathi

She said that she needed to discuss with AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu about the project funding.

Update: 2016-04-03 01:15 GMT
Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharati. (Photo: PTI)

Hyderabad: Union water resources minister Uma Bharathi on Saturday dropped a bombshell on the ongoing multi-purpose Polavaram irrigation project. She said that she needed to discuss with AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu about the project funding and extension of timeline for the completion of the project beyond 2019.

Mr Naidu and irrigation minister Devineni Uma Maheswara Rao hitherto had been making public statements regarding the completion of Polavaram State-1 by 2018 and total completion by 2019.

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