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The Andhra Pradesh government is taking all steps to speed up as many as 28 irrigation projects in the state, with special emphasis on the mega Polavaram project on the Godavari, in an effort to tackle drought, according to Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
He was speaking to the media at Amaravati on Tuesday. He said a major lift irrigation scheme on the Godavari at Purushottapatnam in East Godavari will be inaugurated on the Independence Day with three pumps.
“It will carry water to Visakhapatnam through Yeleru canal and drinking water needs of the city and industrial water requirements will be met adequately, even before the completion of the Polavaram project,” he said. He expressed confidence that Polavaram project will be completed by 2019, “but the Centre will have to reimburse ₹3,500 crore we have already spent on the project, as it is a national project.”
He said the State had sought the Centre to undertake fresh delimitation exercise as the number of Assembly seats willould have to be increased.
“However, contrary to speculation in certain sections of the press, the ruling Telugu Desam Party will have no problem whatsoever, delimitation or no delimitation. We are going to win 2019 Assembly election handsomely. YSR Congress will be nowhere in the picture,” he asserted.
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