Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], September 19 (ANI): Following the Karnataka authorities’s choice to lift the peak of Almatti Dam, BRS working president KT Rama Rao on Friday criticised the choice, saying that the transfer might hurt Telangana’s share of river waters and urged the state authorities to take pressing authorized measures.
Rao additional said that they’ll maintain Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy accountable in the event that they fail to behave, as each Telangana and Karnataka have Congress-led state governments.
Speaking to ANI, KTR stated, ‘The Almatti Dam has been a extremely emotional and contentious challenge for the final a number of many years, since we had been in united Andhra Pradesh… Since then, Telangana has been handled unfairly relating to the Krishna and Godavari rivers, that are the lifelines of Telangana. On this, the Karnataka authorities determined within the cupboard that they’re making an attempt to extend the peak of the dam from 519 to 524 toes, and so they additionally determined to spend Rs 70,000 crore on buying land totalling 1,30,000 acres.’
‘We have been protesting and preventing in opposition to this, and the Telangana authorities should reply shortly and problem this in court docket immediately. If they fail to behave, and since there’s a Congress authorities in each Telangana and Karnataka, we demand explanations from Rahul Gandhi and Revanth Reddy,’ he added.
Earlier, on September 16, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar knowledgeable that the state authorities had fastened a compensation of Rs 30 to Rs 40 lakh per acre for land being acquired for the third section of the Upper Krishna Project.
Addressing a press convention after a particular Cabinet assembly at Vidhana Soudha to expedite land acquisition for the section 3 of Upper Krishna Project, the Deputy CM, who additionally holds Irrigation portfolio, stated, ‘The state authorities has determined to repair a compensation of Rs 40 lakh per acre for irrigated land, Rs 30 lakh per acre for arid land and Rs 25 lakh per acre for land acquired for canals.’
‘The choice on compensation has been taken after consultations with native representatives, farmers and ministers. This compensation quantity is proscribed solely to land acquired for Phase 3 of the Upper Krishna challenge coming underneath the jurisdiction of Krishna Bhagya Jal Nigama. In view of the delay within the Gazette notification, the state authorities has determined to provoke the land acquisition course of to keep away from additional delays. The compensation quantity is anticipated to be round Rs 70,000 crore. It has been determined to finish the land acquisition course of inside three years by means of direct buy from farmers,’ he stated.
‘The land costs are going up within the space. The earlier Bommai authorities had fastened a compensation of Rs 24 lakh per acre for irrigated land and Rs 20 lakh per acre for arid land. But the farmers had not agreed to the compensation regardless of the formation of a Cabinet sub-committee, and therefore the federal government was unable to go forward with it. We have now determined to finish the land acquisition in a single section,’ he stated.
Shivakumar talked about that this challenge requires the acquisition of 1,33,867 acres of land; of this, 75,563 acres shall be submerged, and the canals want one other 51,837 acres.
‘Another 6,467 acres is required for the rehabilitation. The land shall be acquired as per the 2013 Land Acquisition Act. There are about 20,000 instances that are occurring with regard to land acquisition, and these disputes can be resolved by means of arbitration underneath the Land Acquisition Act of 2013. The lands which don’t have any dispute shall be acquired immediately,’ he knowledgeable. (ANI)