Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu receiving petitions from people at Kuppam on Thursday.
Reiterating that the proposed Godavari-Banakacherla project would not harm the interests of any State, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday asserted that he had never opposed, nor would he oppose in the future any irrigation project that the Telangana government might take up on the Godavari.
Mr. Naidu, who wound up his two-day tour of Kuppam constituency, was addressing the media.
Responding to Telangana’s opposition to the Banakacherla project, he said, “I was the one who brought the Devadula Lift Irrigation project for Telangana in the unified Andhra Pradesh. After inspecting the Srisailam project, the SLBC, and the Madhav Reddy Canal, the Devadula project was built over the Godavari. I had also constructed two lift irrigation projects — Pushkara and Tatipudi — in Andhra Pradesh,” Mr. Naidu said.
“Both the upper and lower riparian States (Telangana and Andhra Pradesh) can share the Godavari waters,” he observed.
Pointing out that 2,000 tmc ft of Godavari water had been flowing into the sea over the past one hundred years, the Chief Minister said “even if 200 tmc ft is utilised by either Telangana or Andhra Pradesh, it will benefit both the States.” Addressing the water issues would uplift the entire Telugu community, he asserted.
Later, Mr. Naidu received grievances from the local people at his residence and left for Bengaluru for his onward journey to Amaravati.
Published – July 03, 2025 09:06 pm IST
