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TDP demands immediate halt to Babli project works

Staff Reporter

Wants State Government to take up matter with Centre

ADILABAD: The Telugu Desam Party has demanded that works on the Babli and other ongoing irrigation projects on the Godavari be halted immediately. It also asked the Andhra Pradesh Government to take up the matter with the Union Government to get the work stopped.

A 60-member contingent of TDP activists from Adilabad district and a handful of journalists visited the site of the controversial project coming up on the Godavari near Dharmabad in Nanded district 15 km across the border from Basar.

The visitors noted that work was apace at the Babli project site seven km from Dharmabad town. The contingent was led by the TDP Adilabad president, Gone Hanmanth Rao, the former MP, S.Venugopalachary, the former MLAs Ramesh Rathod and G. Nagesh, the organising secretary, B. Goverdhan Reddy, and the spokesman Jogu Ramanna.

Talking to The Hindu , Mr. Hanmanth Rao and Mr. Venugopalachary said the Maharashtra Government claimed these projects were check dams. However, it was spending Rs. 60 crores on an average on each of these projects, they pointed out. When completed, these projects would render the Godavari dry affecting 16 lakh acres in Adilabad, Karimnagar, Warangal, Nalgonda and Khammam districts, they added.

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