Telangana irrigation minister Harish Rao to press for river interlinking

Hyderabad: Telangana irrigation minister T. Harish Rao will be pressing for the inter-linking of the river project by taking up Himalayan-Godavari link on Tuesday in the southern region irrigation ministers conference in Hyderabad.

The minister at a review meeting on Monday said the new link should cover Himalayas-Manas Sankosh-Teestha-Ganga-Suvarna Rekha-Mahanadi-Godavari so that 938 TMC ft of water could be diverted to the southern river grid project which has been proposed by the Central government.

He said that this would help Telangana state, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu besides augumenting water supplies in Krishna basin.