Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy said his government was struggling to get the revised cost of Polavaram project (roughly ₹55,560 crore) sanctioned by the Centre because his predecessor N. Chandrababu Naidu had agreed to construct it at 2010-11 price level.
Obviously, the project cost has since gone up steeply and convincing the Centre that the revised cost estimate was justified proved to be difficult.
The TDP government had undertaken the construction of the project in spite of it being a national project supposed to be entirely funded by the Centre, to award the contract to Navayuga Engineering Company Limited, which it did for kickbacks.
