Finance Minister Harish Rao said the state government registered a case in the Supreme Court after becoming “perturbed” by the central government’s “disregard” for Telangana’s repeated requests for a thorough reevaluation of flood analyses and the submergence of Bhadrachalam because of Polavaram backwaters.
Members of the TRS and Congress in the Assembly voiced out against the danger of flooding caused by the Polavaram project’s backwaters in Bhadrachalam, the Lord Sri Rama temple, and the adjacent villages.
P Veeraiah, a Congress MLA, and Sandra Venkata Veeraiah, a TRS MLA, claim that the Polavaram project improperly affected the flood studies and submergence impact assessments by the central government.
They clamored for the return of five village panchayats from Telangana that were merged with Andhra Pradesh. According to MLA Venkata Veeraiah, it was essential to combine the five villages back into Telangana and that land was required even to build the retaining wall around Bhadrachalam to prevent flooding.
Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao personally brought up the issue of submergence and raising the project height with the Central Government, the finance minister said, during a brief discussion in the House on the Central Government’s failure to carry out the promises made under the AP Reorganisation Act.
He stated that the Telangana government had recruited the best lawyers to argue the issue and was relentlessly pursuing it. Harish Rao added that the only alternative left was to file a petition in the Supreme Court to save the temple and Bhadrachalam from being flooded by the backwaters.
According to Transport Minister P Ajay Kumar, Polavaram was causing a bottleneck in Bhadrachalam, where flood water typically recedes swiftly.
He encouraged the Andhra Pradesh government to adhere to the initial 36 lakh cusec capacity plan rather than increasing the project height to hold 56 lakh cusecs for humanitarian reasons.
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