Chairman of the Centre’s Task Force on Interlinking of Rivers and adviser to the Union Ministry of Water Resources (Jal Shakti) Sriram Vedire, on Thursday, said that the Central Water Commission (CWC) did not approve the designs and investment clearances for the Kaleshwaram project but only the hydrology (water availability) and interstate aspects (inter-state issues).
At a press conference, where he made a power point presentation on the irrigation projects in TS and AP and river water sharing disputes, he said that when there is a Central Design Organisation (CDO) in any State, CWC will not look into the designs. The CDO of Irrigation department of Telangana has prepared the designs of Kaleshwaram Project and it is responsible for the designs and not CWC.
The investment clearance was also not given by CWC since the State did not answer to the queries raised, he said, and accused the BRS government of taking up the “3 tmc” component for the project as ‘meaningless’.
