NDSA report on Kaleshwaram is indictment of BRS govt.: Uttam
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NDSA report on Kaleshwaram is indictment of BRS govt Uttam The Hindu Bureau production during Vanaka- HYDERABAD lam season with the resi- lience of our farmers and Minister for Irrigation and because of the failed struc- Civil Supplies N Uttam Ku- tures he remarked mar Reddy has stated that Alleging that BRS lead- the National Dam Safety ers were misleading the Authority s NDSA report public he said they want on the Kaleshwaram Pro- to deceive the farmers yet ject was a direct indict- again Countering allega- ment of the previous BRS tions that the NDSA report government exposing se- N Uttam Kumar Reddy was politically motivated rious flaws in its design he clarified that the NDSA construction and mainte- on geophysical investiga- was a central agency com- nance Speaking to media- tions that revealed cavity prising the country s top persons on the sidelines of formation under multiple dam safety experts He de- Bharat Summit here on Fri- sections of the barrage manded a public apology day he said BRS leaders The Minister accused from BRS leaders to the should be ashamed The the previous government farmers of Telangana NDSA report clearly states of mortgaging Telangana s The Minister stated that that the design was faulty future by borrowing over the Congress government construction was faulty lakh crore at high inter- would thoroughly study operation and mainte- est rates to build a project the NDSA findings and dis- nance were faulty Soil test- that failed under their own cuss it in detail during the ing was not done properly watch They had claimed next Cabinet meeting Reit- and no proper geophysical that they were creating erating the government s investigations were wonders with KLIP But the commitment to accounta- conducted project designed and built bility he declared that Highlighting the find- by them had collapsed dur- those who have betrayed ings of the report he point- ing their regime itself Telangana farmers would ed out that the sand piping be held accountable and phenomenon cavity for- Barely functional would not go unpunished mation underneath the He said the key barrages Meanwhile former mi- raft construction defects Medigadda Annaram and nister and BRS leader G Ja- design deficiencies struc- Sundilla were barely gadish Reddy termed the tural distress and other functional though the BRS report as another attempt downstream damages had government projected the to malign the previous go- rendered Block-7 of the Me- project as a monumental vernment as NDSA had digadda Barrage unser- success Despite these submitted the report only viceable The report had structures being non-func- in the case of Medigadda also found similar issues in tional Telangana has Kaleshwaram and not any other blocks as well based achieved record paddy other project referred to it