Hyderabad: Criticising the Congress leaders’ PowerPoint presentation of irrigation projects by the state government, irrigation advisor and Central Water Commission’s former chief engineer Mr R. Vidyasagara Rao said on Thursday that Congress leaders neither had any understanding of irrigation nor had they unearthed any faults.
He said it was a false claim by Congress leaders that Telangana was already utilising irrigation waters for 47 lakh acre and added that creating irrigation potential and actual utilisation of waters for agricultural fields were totally different.
He stressed that only Pranahita and Indravati tributaries of the Godavari River were dependable sources for achieving maximum irrigation benefits in Telangana due to the state’s geographical terrain.
He asked that if the Congress leaders had been sincere in completing the Tammidihatti Barrage across Pranahita at a height of 152 metre, what had prevented them from going ahead with the construction despite there being six years from the date of laying the foundation?
He said that without constructing the projects, the Congress party was claiming the ultimate potential of creating the ayacut under the new projects as credit and added that if that was so they should explain where the water was and which fields were getting it.
The Irrigation advisor said without reengineering and redesigning of the projects, Telangana would have continued to suffer injustice from the same raw deals and faulty estimates and designs.
He also criticised the Congress for boycotting the PowerPoint presentation made by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao in the Assembly and still accusing the government that they were denied explanations.
