AMARAVATI: In what could come as a big relief to the state government, the Union Jal Shakti ministry has agreed to clear the entire cost to complete the first phase of Polavaram project. The ministry has also agreed to reimburse the cost of taking up the repairs and other works as suggested by the experts committee.
The decision was taken at the meeting of the high-level committee chaired by Jal Shakti ministry secretary Pankaj Kumar in New Delhi on Wednesday. The ministry’s advisor Vedire Sriram, AP irrigation principal secretary Sashibhushan Kumar, engineer-in-chief C Narayana Reddy, and senior Central Water Commission and Polavaram Project Authority officials were present at meeting.
