Drought conditions avoidable with Kaleshwaram water use, says Jeevan Reddy

BRS general secretary T. Jeevan Reddy speaking to newspersons in Hyderabad on Friday.

HYDERABAD

Former Minister and general secretary of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) T. Jeevan Reddy has observed that the drought conditions in Telangana are the result of A. Revanth Reddy government’s failure to mitigate the problem by lifting Godavari water with the help of Kaleshwaram project barrages and pump houses to fill every possible water body.

Elsewhere in the country the drought could be due to the impact of El Nino phenomenon, but in Telangana it was purely man made as there was every opportunity to prevent the situation by making use of as much water as possible from Godavari river, which had been flowing downstream into the sea, he said addressing a press conference here on Friday.