The pro-Rayalaseema growth organisations have resolved to carry protests from Monday opposing the development of the Upper Bhadra Project in Karnataka. The protests could be taken up at locations that lack growth across Rayalaseema area.
The Rayalaseema Steering Committee headed by Byreddy Rajasekhara Reddy has proposed a public assembly on the STBC College Grounds in Kurnool to oppose the development in Karnataka. Leaders of TDP, YSRCP and former Congress leaders would attend it.
Meanwhile, the Rayalaseema Community Coordination Forum held an internet assembly with intellectuals and people engaged on the bottom for the water and growth rights of the Rayalaseema area and determined to take up intensive programmes on the subject degree from Tuesday (April 25) to mark the seventh anniversary of Siddeswaram Alugu Praja Foundation on May 31 at Siddeswaram. Forum convenor Bojja Dasaratharami Reddy defined a number of points that want pressing consideration.
Seven years in the past, this congregation of individuals at Siddeswaram had put strain on the Government to construct a barrage. The Central Government’s proposal to construct a wire-stayed bridge is being opposed by all pro-Rayalaseema teams, and a bridge-cum-barrage is being demanded in order that 70 tmcft of Krishna water could be utilised by this area and siltation downside in Srisailam Dam could be diminished.
The assembly famous that if the Upper Bhadra project had been constructed upstream of Tungabhadra Dam, Rayalaseema would change into a desert. It recalled that although the Union Government introduced that the Telugu Ganga, Galeru Nagari, Handriniva, Veligonda initiatives and the Muchumarri, Guru Raghavendra and Siddapuram raise schemes allowed by the Andhra Pradesh State Bifurcation Act weren’t authorized and thus turning Rayalaseema right into a desert, all of the political events failed even to utter a phrase against it, Mr Dasaratharami Reddy identified.
The assembly demanded that they declare their clear stand on the authorized diversion of Krishna waters to the Rayalaseema initiatives after the completion of the Pattiseema project, constructed as a brief project for the Polavaram proper canal in 2017.
