Police along the Andhra-Maharashtra border thwarted an attempt by around 1,500 Shiv Sena activists to march to the Salura lift irrigation project across the Manjira river.
According to information coming in, the Shiv Sena claims that the Salura project is depriving Maharashtra of its share of waters.
Chief Minister K Rosaiah on Thursday held a review meeting on the issue, and instructed Director General Of Police R R Girish Kumar to immediately contact his counterpart in Maharashtra and see to it that no harm comes to the project.
Girish Kumar then contacted the Maharashtra DGP, following which the 1,500 Shiv Sainiks, armed with lathis they claimed were to bring down the check dam, were stopped by the Maharashtra police.
Maharashtra had objected to the project since the day it was taken up in 2004, but the state government had pointed out that project was within AP territory.
Minor Irrigation Minister Sunita Lakshma Reddy denied that there was anything illegal about the project, and said that the AP government had taken up is construction after the Survey Of India briefed the Maharashtra government about its location.
The Salura project is designed to provide water for irrigation to 1,620 acres of land in Nizamabad in the Telangana region. The project was completed in 2006.
Courtesy: INN
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