Former BRS Minister Harish Rao lashed out at the AP government, saying that while the AP government is moving forward by removing obstacles one by one for the construction of the Banakacharla project with the support of the BJP at the Center, CM Revanth Reddy is being completely cooperative with AP.
He said that Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil wrote a letter to CM Revanth Reddy on September 23 stating that the PFR for the Banakacharla project has been received for techno-economic appraisal and the permission process is in progress, and that he should have opposed it for 20 days and is indirectly cooperating with it.
He deplored that the Central Water Commission (CWC) and the river water distribution rules make it clear that there will be no DPR appraisal on flood waters in our country, there will be DPR on net waters, but not on flood waters. He said that while the Karnataka and Maharashtra governments have written letters to the Center opposing the DPR appraisal on flood waters, Revanth Reddy is silent.
Harish Rao showed the letter written by Union Minister Patil to CM Revanth Reddy and the letters sent to the Center by the Maharashtra and Karnataka governments to the media. He said that he is exposing the latest developments in Banakacharla as a witness to the media. He criticized that the AP government has also called tenders for Rs. 9 crore for the Banakacharla DPR, but our CM is still sleeping.
Harish explained that the Karnataka government has written a letter to the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti that if AP takes a total of 423 TMCs, we will stop 112 TMCs of water in Krishna. He said that if Godavari water is transferred as per the inter-state agreement, water will be stopped in Krishna from the next day.
That is, if 423 TMCs of Godavari water is offered to AP and 112 TMCs of Krishna water is offered to Karnataka, then what is left for Telangana, he questioned. Harish said that Maharashtra has written a letter to the Center expressing strong objections to the Banakacharla Techno-Economic Appraisal. He revealed that there are no project regulations on flood waters in the country, and if there are, they will also comply with them.
