Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President & Nalgonda MP N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has strongly condemned Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao for his failure to fill the Manjeera project with Godavari River water.
He was speaking to media persons after he, along with other senior Congress leaders including Sangareddy MLA Jagga Reddy were arrested by the police so as to prevent their visit to Manjeera Dam on Thursday.
Reddy said that it was due to the negligence of the TRS Government that it has turned dry. “CM KCR had announced several times, both in the Assembly and outside, that the Manjeera project would be filled up with Godavari water. Today the Manjeera Project is bone dry. The groundwater has also reached very low levels in Andhole, Narayankhed, Zaheerabad, Patancheruvu , Narsapur, Medak and Sangareddy. All these constituencies do not have irrigation or even drinking water now. Borewells are being dug up to 1200 feet to get water,” he said.
Further, Reddy said that in Sanga Reddy and Patancheruvu constituencies, people were facing problems not only due to shortage of water, but the industrial labour in many major industries such as in BHEL, BDL, Ordnance Factories Ltd, etc., were facing lot of inconvenience.
He said KCR has been making false claims on irrigation facilities. He said the existing Ayacut in Telangana was in existence at the time of its formation and TRS Government did not add an acre to it. Instead, he said KCR constructed Kaleshwaram and other projects only for commissions. He said KCR has been announcing that his government would make optimum utilisation of Godavari River water. However, KCR neglected Manjeera Dam and deprived it of Godavari River water. He said people in Sangareddy and other constituencies, including Greater Hyderabad, would face severe hardship this summer if there was no water in Manjeera Dam.