Team to assess Polavaram works

Sep 10, 2012 |

Hyderabad

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Rajya Sabha member Palvai Govardhan Reddy on Sunday said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has agreed to depute a Central team to assess issues relating to faulty designs, economic viability and the alleged corruption involved in the Polavaram and Pranahita-Chevella irrigation schemes.

Addressing the media in Delhi, the senior Congress leader said he, along with party MP Rapolu Anand Bhaskar, had met the Prime Minister on Saturday and submitted a detailed report to him on the corruption and other related issues with regard to the construction of Polavaram and Pranahita projects.

“The PM spoke to Union minister for water resour-ces Pavan Kumar Bansal about our representation and Mr Bansal agreed to depute a central team to the state to assess the situation,” Mr Reddy said. He said that both the major irrigation projects are only helping contractors, officials and certain politicians to make money in a big way without any tangible benefit to the state.

Mr Reddy said that when they took up the corruption issue with Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy and demanded cancellation of certain package projects under Pranahita-Chevella scheme, principal irrigation secretary Aditya Nath Das was not agreeable to the cancellation. “It is unfortunate that the secretary is more powerful than the irrigation minister and the CM. The government has a right to cancel the projects as there was large scale corruption. Similarly, in other projects too there is massive corruption. Anyway, now the Centre has decided to send a team to assess the issue and take corrective measures,” said Mr Reddy.

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