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NEW DELHI: Sparks flew successful SC arsenic Telangana opposed Andhra Pradesh’s Polavaram-Nallamala Sagar Project (PNSP) with A Revanth Reddy-led govt accusing AP of attempting to misappropriate its stock of Godavari h2o and N Chandrababu Naidu-led govt charging Telangana of attempting to stall farmer-friendly projects adjacent aft taking erstwhile superior metropolis Hyderabad.Telangana done elder advocator A M Singhvi repeatedly pleaded with a seat of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi for a enactment connected tendering process for mentation of the elaborate task study for PNSP alleging that AP govt has decided to proceed contempt the Union govt forming a precocious powered committee led by president of Central Water Commission, which had asked AP not to spell up with it.The seat asked whether a writ petition by a authorities was maintainable erstwhile the halfway contented pertained to quality implicit implementation of allocation of Godavari stream h2o stock betwixt the 2 states, which besides progressive Karnataka and Maharashtra.
It asked Singhvi to instrumentality acquisition wrong a week whether Telangana would similar filing a suit nether Article 131 of the Constitution making each 3 states — AP, Karnataka and Maharashtra — parties.AP done elder advocates Mukul Rohatgi, Jaideep Gupta and Balbir Singh told the tribunal that the task had Telangana’s consent astatine the clip of reorganisation of Andhra Pradesh. Rohatgi said the tender is for mentation of DPR for the irrigation project, which is meant to usage lone the excess flood h2o flowing done AP, which is the little riparian state.
Singhvi said determination was nary means to measurement excess flood h2o and alleged that it was a guise to misappropriate astir 200 tmc of h2o allocated to Telangana, which helium said is successful the process of gathering assorted barrages to utilise its stock of 968 tmc water. “It is simply a immense emotive contented successful Telangana arsenic commissioning of the irrigation task would chopped the state’s stock of Godavari water,” helium said.Gupta said, “What is an emotive issue? Can 1 authorities halt an irrigation task successful different authorities which is simply a little riparian one? Telangana has already taken Hyderabad.” Rohatgi said the task is to instrumentality h2o to drought prone areas & the DPR mentation is being pursued aft support of a pre-feasibility report.
