Hyderabad: Telangana Rakshana Sena (TRS) chief Kalvakuntla Kavitha on Saturday alleged that successive govts had failed to complete key irrigation projects and asserted that interlinking Godavari and Krishna rivers, as advocated earlier by former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, is the only long-term solution to Nalgonda district’s water scarcity and fluoride problems.
She said that even Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme was struggling to secure adequate water from the Krishna basin and questioned how additional water could be diverted to Dindi. In a significant remark, Kavitha admitted that mistakes had been made during the previous BRS regime in the irrigation sector and said she was willing to take responsibility for being part of that govt. Addressing a presentation at Dindi Reservoir in Nalgonda district, Kavitha criticised the state govt’s proposal to bring water to Dindi from Yedula, claiming the plan was technically difficult and impractical. However, she maintained that the present govt had also failed to advance key projects over the past three years.