They apprised the CWC chairman with the IIT Roorkee report that estimates that a flood of 58 lakh cusecs could inundate large areas in Odisha, far exceeding the previously agreed submergence levels.
The delegation expressed grave concerns about the adverse impact on thousands of tribal people, including vulnerable and primitive tribes, whose lives and livelihoods are at risk.
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday said that the damage inflicted on the Polavaram project during the past five years of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s rule was worse than that during the bifurcation of unified Andhra Pradesh.
According to sources, Mr Reddy is said to have requested the Prime Minister to expedite the approval of the revised cost estimate of the project.
Veerraju claimed that the Centre has given Rs 11,000 crore for Polavaram project and until now the state government has stated spending Rs 7,000 crore for building the dam and Rs 4,000 on the evacuees.
The Environmental Clearance was given to the Project on 25.10.2005, without conducting the public hearing in the affected areas of Malkangiri district of Odisha.
The Odisha government had raised objections to the project in the apex court by way of a petition and had challenged the environment clearance accorded to the project.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Friday and urged him to fulfil…
The prestigious Polavaram project, a multi-purpose irrigation venture which enjoys status of a national scheme, will be completed by 2019,…
