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Babli project poses threat to Nizamabad, says expert

Staff Reporter

`Gutpha, Ali Sagar lift schemes will be worst-hit'

NIZAMABAD: An engineering expert and the Hyderabad Engineers Forum convenor, Devaruppala Bheemaiah, has said Nizamabad district is bound to lose much due to the Babli and 11 other irrigation projects coming up in Maharashtra.

Delivering a keynote address at an awareness meeting organised under the aegis of the Telangana Vidyavantula Vedika here on Wednesday, he said completion of the Babli project would be detrimental to the Gutpha and Ali Sagar lift schemes in the district.

Stating that the Maharashtra in fact had no right to construct a project at Babli because it lies in the Sriramsagar Project catchment area and for which the Andhra Pradesh Government had paid compensation at the time of construction of the SRSP.

"We have a right to utilise Godavari river water to the tune of 1100 tmcft, but we have never harnessed that amount of water so far,'' he said and added that though Telangana had chances to utilise another 1000 tmcft of water through Maneru, Penganga, Pranahita, Poorna, Manjira and Indravathi the Government had never planned to that effect.

Kakatiya, the main canal of the SRSP, had not been developed to the extent possible. As a result, only 8,000 cusecs of water was being released into the canal as against 14,000 cusecs even at the time when water reached the full reservoir level in the project, he observed. Saying that the Babli and other upcoming projects would certainly cause a great damage to projects across the Godavari in the State, he said it was high time to come forward all the educated to launch a struggle for bringing pressure on the Government for stalling projects.

The BJP district president, Y. Lakshminarayana, the TRS district president, A.S. Posetty and the CPI(ML)-New Democracy leaders, Akula Papaiah and V. Prabhakar also echoed the same view.

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