Uttam Kumar Reddy needs Centre to get probe right into swindling of cash on Kaleswaram task

Hyderabad: Congress MP N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Friday required that both BJP Govt at the Centre and also TRS Govt in Telangana clarify their depend on the nationwide task standing for the Kaleshwaram task.

“Both TRS and BJP Govts must clarify as to why a project built for Rs 1.20 lakh crore and is called Asia’s biggest irrigation project is not eligible to be included in the list of the National Project. If the project is not economically viable, then all those involved in its designing, construction and execution should be severely punished by ordering a high-level probe,” he required.

Addressing media individuals in New Delhi, Uttam Kumar Reddy claimed Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao ought to respond to the Centre’s stand that the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project was not qualified to obtain National Project standing. “In a question raised by me in Lok Sabha on Thursday, Union Minister of State for Jal Shakti Bishweshwar Tudu has revealed that the Telangana government did not obtain the mandatory investment clearance from the Centre and therefore, the Kaleshwaram Project was not eligible to get National Project status. The reply clearly shows that neither TRS Govt in Telangana nor BJP Govt at the Centre were serious in giving national project status to Kaleshwaram project,” he declared. Uttam Kumar Reddy claimed the TRS Govt did not look for financial investment clearance for the Kaleshwaram task as its benefit-cost proportion was also reduced that makes it very unviable.