Hyderabad: It is becoming clear that the National Dam Safety Authority (NDSA) is nowhere close to completing its much-awaited report to the state government on possible solutions to problems at Medigadda, Annaram and Sundila barrages of the Kaleswaram project.
It has come to light that the Union Ministry of Water Power has written another letter to the Telangana Irrigation Department that the NDSA Expert Committee specially constituted to resolve the issues at Kaleswaram barrages is still awaiting the report of several technical test reports on the three barrages. .
In a letter written to the Secretary of the Irrigation Department, Ajay Kumar Sinha, Director of the Policy and Research Branch of NDSA, said that the expert committee “has expressed concern over the failure to submit the requested materials from the Irrigation and CAD Department.” A delay in providing these inputs is likely to lead to a corresponding delay in the submission of the committee’s final report.”
Sinha’s letter to the state government follows the committee’s November 29 letter to the NDSA president, saying, “It is requested that the NDSA may influence the Secretary, I&CAD Department, Government of Telangana to expeditiously submit all pending inputs. The committee without delay.”
The NDSA was supposed to submit its final report by December 31, but the Jal Shakti Ministry’s letter to the state irrigation department on December 2 clarified that the report will now take much longer in the state. According to the letter, four different test/inspection reports are pending at Medigadda, two at Annaram and three at Sundila Barrage.
No indication of required reports from state: NDSA