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New Indian Express
03-05-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Harish Rao defends Kaleshwaram's third tmcft plan, says it safeguards Telangana's Godavari rights
HYDERABAD: BRS MLA and former minister T Harish Rao on Friday said that the 'third tmcft' component was incorporated in Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme only to protect the rights of Telangana in Godavari river. He said that the then CM K Chandrasekhar Rao took this decision keeping in mind the state's requirements for the next 100 years. Harish was addressing the gathering during a programme organised by the Telangana Vikasa Samithi, where he unveiled two books — Saguneeti rangamlo Telangana padella prasthanam and Kaleshwaram Project: Prasnalu, Vimarsalu, Vakreekaranalu, Vivaranalu — authored by retired irrigation engineer and former OSD (Irrigation) to CM, Sridhar Rao Deshpande. He also said that the Kaleshwaram project was completed with 'the lowest cost escalation'. The former minister wondered how the Congress government would divert 20 tmcft water from Mallannasagar to Hyderabad if Kaleshwaram has collapsed. Disputing Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy's claim that water cannot be stored in the barrages, Harish Rao said that the barrages could store more than two tmcft. He alleged that the state government failed to stop the government of AP from proceeding with the proposed Godavari-Banakacherla project. He also claimed that the previous BRS government completed 80 per cent of the Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Project works.
Hans India
01-05-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
Book launch on Kaleshwaram project tomorrow
Hyderabad: A book 'Kaleshwaram –Vastavalu Vakrikaranalu' (Kaleshwaram- Facts and Distortions) written by the Telangana irrigation experts Sridhar Deshpande will be released by BRS senior leader T Harish Rao at 5 pm at Telugu University Auditorium on May 2. 'The book would be launched under the auspices of Telangana Vikasa Samithi,' said Samithi General Secretary Erroju Srinivas in a statement on Wednesday.
