Overview

• State cabinet has approved a seven-member panel led by former Central Water Commission chairman AB Pandya to reassess structural safety and guide KLIS barrage restoration.
• Repair works at the Medigadda barrage have been on hold for over 18 months, causing Godavari water to overflow into the sea and threatening this year’s farming season.
• BRS working president KT Rama Rao and contractor L&T have challenged the NDSA’s April report as unscientific and driven by political motives.
• Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy insists the NDSA findings reveal serious design, construction and maintenance flaws in the lift irrigation scheme.
• K. Chandrashekar Rao is set to appear before the Justice PC Ghose Commission on June 5 to address allegations of irregularities in the Kaleshwaram project.