Minor Irrigation Minister Sunita Lakshma Reddy on Thursday said that there is no danger to the Salura Irrigation Project across the river Manjira in Nizamabad, after activists belonging to the Shiv Sena were
stopped within the borders of Maharashtra by police.
Denying that there was anything illegal about the project, she said that plans were drawn for the project in 2004 and the Maharashtra government had objected on the grounds that the proposed project site was in its territory.
Talking to media persons at Secretariat, Lakshma Reddy said that the Nizamabad collector had met the Nanded collector at the time and talked over the issue. The then Nizamabad collector showed documentary evidence to his Nanded counterpart, and the matter was cleared then.
The Sunita Lakshma Reddy further revealed that the ground work for the project began in 2006. She said that the waters from the project are now being supplied to 1,620 acres of land.
The minor irrigation minister said that since the day work began on the project, there was no problem from any quarter.
She said that the recent inspection tour taken to the site of the Babli project across river Godavari in Maharashtra by the Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu and his team had ignited passions in that state.
She charged the TDP chief of creating enmity between the people of the 2 states.
The minister said that the Shiv Sainiks who had tried to march up to the Salura project were stopped within the Maharashtra borders, and that there is no danger to the project.
She said that security has been heightened around the site of the Salura Project as a precautionary measure.
Courtesy: INN