The ₹1.20 lakh crore Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project has been built “irresponsibly in a hurry with a mad Tughlaq design and is a total failure” and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao should take responsibility for “disregarding experts’ advice” and “not ensuring timely quality checks”, charged Union Minister for Tourism, Culture and Development of Northeast Region G. Kishan Reddy on Wednesday.
“The piers collapsing in Medigadda or Laxmi barrage has put the entire Kaleshwaram project in jeopardy, with doubts arising about the safety, security, stability, benefits and financial burden on the State as the project was built by taking hefty loans,” he told a press conference in New Delhi.
