Hyderabad: KTR lists factors coming in the way of Pranahita-Chevella project

Hyderabad: BRS acting president and former minister KT Rama Rao has clarified that the main challenges that have arisen in the implementation of the project of Dr BR Ambedkar Pranahita Chevella were mainly related to two issues of interest. Share a range of publications, including videos, from multiple sources. Since it dealt with the flooding of 3.786 acres of land in Maharashtra, it raised serious concerns. The state was strongly opposed to the construction of the press at the proposed location. He informed that the Maharashtra government had requested to reduce the FRL to + meter to reduce the risk of drowning. As part of an initiative to resolve the problems involved in the implementation of the project, the previous Chief Ministers of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh signed an agreement on 5 May 2012 to form an inter-state consortium. Of Telangana. , , A meeting of Water Resources Development/Development Ministers of both the states was held in Mumbai on 23 July 2014. He made every effort to persuade Maharashtra to allow construction of the barrier up to +152 meters with FRL, but in vain. The Maharashtra government had again insisted on reducing the FRL of the proposed project as a condition for its approval. A joint study conducted by both the states assessed submergence in 285 acres and reduced the FRL to +148 metres. But the project reducing FRL to +148 will allow a provisional design of only 44 TMC instead of the envisaged 160 TMC at +152 metres. But with low FRL the amount of water available will be insufficient to remove two TMC per day to meet the planned use. The Central Water Commission has announced that the net availability of water at the proposed site will be approximately 165.38 TMC with 75 per cent reliability, which includes an estimated additional 63 TMC from the participation of upstream states. It was also recommended to the project authorities to modify the variable flow volume of Pranahita Dam keeping in mind the general availability and environmental requirements at the location of Tammidahetti in addition to the storage capacity in the proposed dam. The CWC had made it clear that the estimated 63 TMC water availability from the upper reaches of the state could not be relied upon in future.