Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar has demanded that the Centre constitute a committee comprising experts of the Central Water Commission (CWC) to study the backwaters effects of the Polavaram Project, under construction in Andhra Pradesh, on Telangana’s famous temple town of Bhadrachalam to avert “catastrophic consequences” of a potential massive deluge in the future.
Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, the Minister said last week’s massive floods in the Godavari at Bhadrachalam had led to widespread submergence, more severe than the highest ever flood level recorded in 1986.
If the Polavaram project was constructed by increasing the Probable Maximum Flood (PMF) from 36 lakh cusecs to 50 lakh cusecs, the entire Bhadrachalam town and its surrounding areas would face a massive deluge of unfathomable proportions, he said.
