Telangana-Maharashtra set up inter-state board to oversee irrigation projects

Hyderabad: TS and Maharashtra have set up the first inter-state board to oversee existing and new irrigation projects in both the states across River Godavari.

The board will be headed by the TS and Maharashtra Chief Ministers on rotation annually, according to the accord signed between the two states in Mumbai on Tuesday.

If the TS CM is the chairman of the board, the Maharashtra CM will be the co-chairman and vice versa.

Irrigation, finance, revenue, forest ministers of both the states, Union water resources official, principal secretary of irrigation departments, forest officials, engineers and others officials will be members of the board.

The board, which met briefly in Mumbai on Tuesday, will meet in Hyderabad soon to review the projects in both the states. Chief Ministers K. Chandrasekhar Rao and Devendra Fadnavis signed the MoU in this regard in Mumbai on Tuesday.

The board will oversee all issues pertaining to Lendi and Pranahita (Tummidihatti barrage), Kaleshwaram (Mudigadda Barrage), Rajupet Barrage, Chanaka-Korata Barrage, Pamparad Barrage on Penganga and Lower Penganga projects.

It will also oversee agreements with undivided AP, set up officials’ team to inspect projects in the state.