‘Kaleshwaram water discharged into the sea’
The Hindu
Govt. incurred ₹1,000 crore power charges for lifting this water: Ponnala
Former PCC president Ponnala Lakshmaiah said the opening the gates of Lower Manair Dam (LMD) proved that the 33 tmcft water lifted from Kaleshwaram project since June 10 had gone into the sea as he had been arguing since the Kaleshwaram project was taken up. Mr. Lakshmaiah, who was irrigation minister in the combined Andhra Pradesh, said the government lifted 33 tmcft from Kaleshwaram sine June 10 this year and pumped into LMD through Yellapmpalli project, but that water was now discharged into the sea, wasting the whole effort. The government had incurred ₹1,000 crore for power charges to lift water. “I have been arguing that lifting water in the rainy season was of no use but the reason for lifting is more political than needs on the ground. Engineers know the availability of enough water during rainy season but on whose instructions are they unnecessarily lifting the water?” he asked.The Opposition Congress demanded that the government open the Gandhi Vatika Museum, depicting Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy and freedom struggle, built at a cost of ₹85 crore in Jaipur’s Central Park last year, during the Congress-led regime in Rajasthan. The museum has not been opened to the public, reportedly because of the administration’s engagements with the State Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.
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