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Supreme Court moved to stop Babli project

Legal Correspondent

New Delhi : A Telugu Desam Party MLA and a farmer from Andhra Pradesh moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday for a direction to the Maharashtra Government to stop the construction of the Babli project across the Godavari river. Dayakar Rao, MLA from Warrangal, and Lakshmanan from Karim Nagar alleged that Maharashtra was violating Bachchawat award and various agreements.

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By executing the project, Maharashtra was trying to utilise 60-tmc ft of water in excess of its entitlement under the award. If it was allowed to proceed, six districts in Andhra Pradesh would be deprived of water and over 18 lakh farmers would be affected.

They contended that the State had no right to undertake the construction of the barrage or any other irrigation project by encroaching into the reservoir waterspread area of Pochampad Dam Project.

It was going ahead with the construction illegally and contrary to the terms of the October 1975 agreement.

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