Tension prevailed at the Nagarajunasagar Project site in Nalgonda district after Andhra Pradesh police took control over half of the project’s spillway area having 26 crest gates around the intervening night of November 29 and November 30 and erected barricades and barbed wires to prevent the police from Telangana going to the other side/half.
According to reports, over 150 police personnel swarmed over the dam spillway area in the night, damaged the closed circuit television cameras and the Telangana side could not resist them as hardly two dozen special protection force personnel were present. The Telangana side could not send reinforcement as the State police were engaged in election duties with polling going for the Assembly elections on Thursday.
As per the provisions of the AP Reorganisation Act, Nagarjunasagar dam is controlled and supervised by Telangana and Andhra Pradesh was given the control over Srisailam project since the projects are joint storage facilities meeting the power generation, irrigation and drinking needs in the two States.
