Polavaram is termed as life line for Andhra Pradesh. Now it is million dollar question whether this life line has completed or not among the people. Then UPA Govt declared that Polavaram as National Project in AP re-organization Act to AP and assured that Centre would give financial assistance to State in constructing the Polavaram till the project has completed. The then CM Chandrababu Naidu asked the NDA Govt to speed-up the Polavaram project. He considered every Monday as Polavaram and reviews the progress of the project without fail.
As per AP Government officials, 70% of the Polavaram project work has been completed and supposed to give water through gravity by the end of this June. During the recent Election campaign, jagan too give assurance to farmers on completion of Polavaram and also promised to implement R & R package as 2013 Land acquisition Act. Now, he announced after meeting with Prime Minister in New delhi that AP Govt need not require constructing Polavaram. Logically he is right. But if AP fails to complete 30% of the project now the delay will continue further which causes difficult to the irrigation and drinking as well in the state.
If AP left the Polavaram to Cenral Govt we don’t have any guarantee when the project will be finished. lakhwar dam on yamuna River in Uttarakhand is related to National Irrigation Project. This was started in 1987 when UP was combined state and this was not completed even now 19 years after the division of the state. People in krishna Delta and Rayalaseema were enjoyed the fruits of Pattiseema. They expect and eagerly waiting for the completion of Polavaram to counter drought situation in AP. jagan’s statement raised many doubts on completion of Polavaram.
