HYDERABAD
Working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Okay.T. Rama Rao has raised severe issues in regards to the Musi River Entrance beautification venture proposed by the State Authorities, highlighting a spiralling enhance in its estimated prices.
“Initially, the cost of the project was estimated at ₹50,000 crore, and it was revised later to ₹70,000 crore and now to a staggering ₹1.5 lakh crore,” Mr. Rao stated in an announcement on June 21. He said that the earlier BRS Authorities had already accomplished 100% sewerage therapy at a value of ₹3,866 crore and deliberate the rejuvenation, beautification and growth of the Musi River Entrance at an estimated value of ₹16,634 crore.
The fee estimated by the earlier authorities consists of an expressway from Manchirevula (West) to Pratapa Singaram (Outer Ring Street East). The outstanding value escalation within the estimated value of the venture was elevating doubts in regards to the current authorities’s calculations and intentions.
He recollected how the Congress get together had criticised the Kaleshwaram Challenge, which, he stated, had reworked the fortunes of Telangana’s farmers and was accomplished at a value of ₹80,000 crore. The proposed value of ₹1.5 lakh crore expenditure for the Musi River beautification had sparked a debate and skepticism throughout the State.
The BRS chief sought to know from the federal government as to what number of farmers would profit from the Musi venture, what was the storage capability, what number of acres could be irrigated, what could be the rise in crop yield, what industrial wants could be met and what number of new reservoirs could be constructed.
He questioned Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s choice for the Musi venture over the Palamuru-Rangareddy venture, which is in its last phases. He additionally raised issues in regards to the technique behind remodeling Musi right into a stay river akin to London’s Thames, leaving different irrigation initiatives that could possibly be accomplished with much less price range and energy.