TIRUPATI: Nandyal district within the perennially drought susceptible Rayalaseema area of the state is looking at an unprecedented water disaster on the very starting of the summer time season this 12 months.
With the 2024 basic elections only a month and half away, the prevailing drought situation and the water disaster throughout the Rayalaseema area has emerged as a serious ballot situation.
And whereas the political blame recreation goes on between the ruling YSRCP and the Telugu Desam, persons are grappled with a grave state of affairs on floor with water provide restricted to as soon as in three-four days in a number of villages and cities throughout the district.
Practically three lakh folks dwelling on the district headquarters Nandyal are additionally dealing with an acute water scarcity despite the fact that the Kundu river flows near the city and the Velugodu undertaking is positioned simply 30 kms away.
Whereas the ruling occasion leaders not too long ago inaugurated a water therapy plant linked to the Velugodu undertaking and claimed that they’ve addressed the ingesting water situation at Nandyal, water provide remained a non-starter in actuality as not even motors and pumps existed.
Chatting with TOI, Telugu Desam occasion’s Lok Sabha nominee for Nandyal parliament Byreddy Shabari recalled that in 2017, the Telugu Desam occasion allotted a sum of Rs.138 crore beneath Amrut-1 phase-2 works to offer a everlasting answer to the ingesting water woes of Nandyal.
Whereas 70 p.c works have been accomplished by the tip of the TDP tenure, the YSRCP govt could not full the pending 30 p.c works and now the undertaking price has reportedly escalated to Rs.158 crore and nobody is aware of when the Nandyal ingesting water undertaking shall be accomplished at this tempo.
Shabari noticed that the state govt’s apathy has solely aggrievated the prevailing drought state of affairs on floor additional and that the ingesting water disaster is anticipated to additional worsen within the subsequent couple of months.
With the 2024 basic elections only a month and half away, the prevailing drought situation and the water disaster throughout the Rayalaseema area has emerged as a serious ballot situation.
And whereas the political blame recreation goes on between the ruling YSRCP and the Telugu Desam, persons are grappled with a grave state of affairs on floor with water provide restricted to as soon as in three-four days in a number of villages and cities throughout the district.
Practically three lakh folks dwelling on the district headquarters Nandyal are additionally dealing with an acute water scarcity despite the fact that the Kundu river flows near the city and the Velugodu undertaking is positioned simply 30 kms away.
Whereas the ruling occasion leaders not too long ago inaugurated a water therapy plant linked to the Velugodu undertaking and claimed that they’ve addressed the ingesting water situation at Nandyal, water provide remained a non-starter in actuality as not even motors and pumps existed.
Chatting with TOI, Telugu Desam occasion’s Lok Sabha nominee for Nandyal parliament Byreddy Shabari recalled that in 2017, the Telugu Desam occasion allotted a sum of Rs.138 crore beneath Amrut-1 phase-2 works to offer a everlasting answer to the ingesting water woes of Nandyal.
Whereas 70 p.c works have been accomplished by the tip of the TDP tenure, the YSRCP govt could not full the pending 30 p.c works and now the undertaking price has reportedly escalated to Rs.158 crore and nobody is aware of when the Nandyal ingesting water undertaking shall be accomplished at this tempo.
Shabari noticed that the state govt’s apathy has solely aggrievated the prevailing drought state of affairs on floor additional and that the ingesting water disaster is anticipated to additional worsen within the subsequent couple of months.
