A A new queue exploded on the connection with Polavaram-Banakacher between TaLangana and Andhra Pradesh. The project, which will direct 200 TMC FT Godavari water to Krishna and Penna basins, aims to provide drinking and irrigation water to Andhra Pradesh’s drought Rayalaseema region.
Andhra Pradesh government has already presented the preliminary feasibility report to the Central Water Commission (CWC). The CWC now asked the state to present a detailed project report (DPR).
In addition, the center offered to finance 50% of the total cost of the project, which was estimated as part of the rivers connection of the rivers; The remaining, financial responsibility and budget management (FRBM) will be financed by borrowing beyond the borders. The center upset Telangana to complete the Kaleshwaram project on time by referring to non -budget borrowings, as the state reduces the borrowing limits within the scope of the FRBM law.
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), who came to power both in TaLangana and opposing, believes that the project violated the coastal rights of the state’s Godavari waters and the provisions of the 2014 provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Law.
However, both parties are busy blaming each other to “allow” to “allow” to plan the project. The other important opposition party in the state – Bharatia Janata Party (BJP) remained largely silent. This is because the BJP government in the center has the support of the ruling party Telugu Desam Party of Andhra Pradesh. He believes that the Government of Telangana gives the Andhra Pradesh government the advantage of doing things with rapid approval from the center.
Prime Minister A. Revanth Reddy and Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Redy accused the previous BRS government for the decision of andhra Pradesh’s decision to address the Godavari Derivation Project. They showed the first APEX Council meeting dated September 21, 2016 as evidence. At that time, Prime Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, Godavari’nin 3,000 TMC FT juice an average per year was evacuated to the sea, and instead of a “understanding” between the two states, he said.
BRS said that during the same APEX Council meeting, BRS said that “water brought objections to the deviation of water from Godavari to Krishna without consulting TELANGANA.
Former Irrigation Minister T. Harish Rao said Congress deliberately misleading the people. Andhra Pradesh claimed that the Godavari Court to re -allocate water by the Court of Water Disputes and claimed that it was aimed at directing Godavari waters to demand rights in the future. He called the Congress government’s “soft approach to the project as“ Teanghana’s mortgage of water rights ve and said that it was “Mr. Revanth Redy’s ‘Gurudakshina’ political mentor N. Chandrababu Naidu”. Mr. Rao said that the Late YS Rajasekhara Reddy’s Krishna waters, Pothyreddypadu Chief Regulator, now andhra Pradesh Prime Minister Chandrabababu Naidu’s Godavari waters at the expense of the Roasting rights of the Godavari waters.
Mr. Naidu stressed that the project is necessary. He argued that Godavari had plenty of water and asked why Tahangana should object to the use of water flowing into the sea. BRS also wanted to know why the Andhra Pradesh government had objected to the Kaleshwaram project if there was really a wide water in Godavari.
M. Shyamprasad Redy, President of the Retired Engineers Association of Retired Engineers, suggested that the center’s assessment of the connection project with Polavaram-Banakacher has only maintained the rights of the people of the TaLangana, allowing all ongoing and designed projects in Godavari Basin. The former Chief engineer also claimed that the center also allocated more than 200 TMC FT to the Krishna basin instead of devoting Godavari water into other basins.
Water sharing is a sensitive issue and is linked to economy and regional emotions. The center is good to be as neutral as possible when dealing with water disputes between states.
Published – 25 June 2025 01:35
