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NDSA indicts BRS


for failures  Uttam

DC CORRESPONDENT             structed this project and 
HYDERABAD  APRIL 25          those who enabled its 
                             flaws have betrayed 
Irrigation minister N        Telangana s farmers  We 
Uttam Kumar Reddy on         will ensure they are held 
Friday said the NDSA         accountable  This betray- 
report on Kaleshwaram        al will not go unpun- 
project was a direct         ished   he said 
indictment of the failures    Accusing the BRS gov- 
of the previous BRS gov-     ernment of  mortgaging 
ernment  He said the         Telangana s future by bor- 
report exposed many seri-    rowing over Z1 lakh crore 
ous flaws in design  con-    at high interest rates to 
struction  and mainte-       build a project that failed 
nance of the project s bar-  under its own watch   he 
rages at Medigadda           said   the BRS claimed it 
Annaram  and Sundilla        was creating wonders 
 On the BRS  charge that     with Kaleshwaram  The 
the report was politically   BRS built it  it collapsed 
motivated  he said that the  during its regime  The 
NDSA was a Central           BRS should apologise to 
agency comprising the        the farmers of Telan- 
country s top dam safety     gana   He said the Medi- 
experts   The NDSA was       gadda  Annaram and 
constituted when the BRS     Sundilla barrages were 
was in power  It should be   barely functional  even 
ashamed that their proj-     though the BRS govern- 
ect was indicted by an       ment projected the project 
institution formed during    as a monumental success  
their rule   he said while    Despite these structures 
answering questions on       not being in use  TG 
the NDSA report on the       achieved record paddy 
sidelines of Bharat          production during the 
Summit on Friday             Vanakalam season  That 
 He said the  the NDSA       was due to the resilience 
report clearly stated there  of our farmers  not 
were design  construc-       because of the failed 
tion  operation and main-    structures built by the 
tenance faults  Soil testing BRS government   he 
was not done properly        said  The NDSA report  he 
and no proper geophysical    said  found design and 
investigations were con-     construction defects  
ducted   The state govern-   structural distress  and 
ment  will thoroughly        downstream damages 
study the NDSA findings      which made Block-7 of the 
and the Cabinet will dis-    Medigadda barrage 
cuss it  Those who con-      unserviceable
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