Amaravati, Feb 20 (IANS) :
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday sought the Centre’s support to complete the Polavaram project on a war footing. The Chief Minister along with Deputy Chief Minister
Pawan Kalyan met Union Minister of Jal Shakti C. R. Patil in New Delhi. CM Naidu posted on ‘X’ that they requested reimbursement for the expenditure on constructing Polavaram Left and Right canals and all support needed to complete the project on a war footing.
“We also solicited Sri Paatil Garu’s support for the Polavaram Banakacherla Link project, which aims to transfer 200 TMC of floodwater from the Godavari river at Polavaram to Banakacherla through a link canal,” said the Chief Minister. He wrote that Banakacherla Link Project will make the state droughtproof,
providing drinking water to 80 lakh people, irrigating 3 lakh hectares of new land, supplementing 9.14 lakh hectares, and allocating 20 TMC of water to industries. CM Naidu and Pawan Kalyan were in the national capital to attend the swearing-in of the new Chief Minister of Delhi Rekha Gupta. CM Naidu is also likely to call Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Union Minister for Agriculture Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
