The signing of an agreement with Maharashtra scheduled on August 23 over construction of five barrages by Telangana across Penganga, Pranahitha and Godavari rivers will be a historic day for the people of the State, according to Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).
Party Member of Parliament of Karimnagar, B. Vinod Kumar, said here on Sunday that the barrages have the potential to bring a green revolution in Telangana by irrigating parched lands with the help of water flowing waste into the sea.
KCR to brief people
Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will explain more on the redesigning of projects in the State after signing the agreement with Maharashtra, he noted.
He alleged that the Congress is trying to mislead people on irrigation projects by spreading falsehood and sought to know why water did not even flow for three months in the Kakatiya Canal all these years, if designing of project constructed during its regime was correct.‘Mudslinging’
On the PowerPoint presentation made by the Congress against redesigning of projects taken up by the State Government, the Karimnagar Member of Par said it was an effort of mudslinging on the government and their understanding would have been different had they been in the Assembly when the Chief Minister gave his presentation in March.
Unable to face facts and mistakes did by their governments in the past, the Congress legislators ran away from the presentation in the Assembly, Mr. Vinod Kumar remarked, and questioned why they did not construct the barrage with 152-meter full reservoir level at Tummidihatti for seven years from 2007, when the Pranahitha-Chevella project was announced first, even as the party was in power at the Centre and also in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.
He made it clear that the Telangana Government had planned a barrage at Medigadda as the availability of water was much higher there compared to Tummidihatti, where environmental and submergence concerns are high.
