Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has instructed the officials of the Water Resources Department to mobilise ₹6,000 crore from the Central government on an ad hoc basis for expediting the construction of the Polavaram project.
This amount is over and above the ₹2,900 crore that Centre owes to the State towards reimbursement of the expenditure incurred by it on the national project.
Addressing a review meeting on the impact of floods on the Polavaram project and the status of pending irrigation projects, at his camp office on Thursday, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy said the officials should secure ₹6,000 crore on an ad hoc basis rather than as component-wise reimbursement, to speed up the project work, and directed the officials to pay special attention to the head works and connectivity between its right and left canals.
