Ahead of the visit of a team of Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) to its Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Project (RLIP) on August 5, the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy-led Andhra Pradesh government on Tuesday denied permission to Telangana government officials accompanying the team to visit the project site.
Raising objections, the Andhra Pradesh government said it will not allow Telangana state officials to go along with the official team of Krishna board to visit the Rayalaseema project on August 5. It has written to the board that no one from Telangana government will be allowed to visit the Rayalaseema lift irrigation project.
Andhra Pradesh Engineer-in-Chief (ENP) Narayana Reddy said he wrote a letter to the Krishna Board, as per the government instructions, to disallow a team from Telangana state to visit the site.
The visit by the team of KRMB is being seen as significant as the K Chandrasekhar Rao-led Telangana government, which objected the gazette notification, had already filed a complaint to the Centre and the board about illegal construction of the projects in Andhra Pradesh.