PRLIS DPR Returned As Krishna Issues Being Heard By Tribunal: Centre
Patil informed that requests for including several projects of Telangana under the PM Krishi Sichai Yojana were sent back to the respective project chief engineers seeking additional information: Reports
HYDERABAD: The Centre has informed Telangana that it cannot, for now, take up the state’s request to consider the detailed project report (DPR) for the Palamuru Rangareddy lift irrigation scheme (PRLIS) submitted by the state government as the matter is sub-judice.
In a letter to irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on January 29, jal shakti minister C.R. Patil clarified that the matter of sharing of waters from the Krishna River was under adjudication by the Brijesh Kumar Tribunal which has till July 31 to issue its orders.
It may be recalled that Uttam Kumar Reddy had written twice to Patil, once in July and again in November last, requesting that the DPR for the scheme be approved.
Patil also informed the state government that Telangana’s objection to Andhra Pradesh’s Polavaram-Banakacharla project’s pre-feasibility report had been forwarded to states that also sharing Godavari River – Maharashtra, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Odisha — for their views and that their responses were being studied by the Central Water Commission (CWC).
Patil informed that requests for including several projects of Telangana under the PM Krishi Sichai Yojana were sent back to the respective project chief engineers seeking additional information. The state had requested that projects including Pranahita-Chevella Srujala Sravanti, Maktal-Narayanpet-Kodangal lift irrigation scheme and PRLIS be included in the Central government’s scheme.
