2014-2019 jaggad ekkada?

[niladisify]

I remember before 2019 elections jaggad used to give moderately good speeches, atleast without script and targetting tdp policies. what happened to all that, why has he become so dumb now?

Is it because he realized after coming to power that it's not as easy as what he thought and lack of experience? or was he failed by his useless ministers and mlas? 

Even his recent speeches in siddham sabhalu were mediocre...

Political experts shed some of your opinions...no personal attacks here pls

[ManOffSteel]

Over confidence - 30 years nene power lo unta

Wrong guidance - distribution of freebies will not create a loyal vote bank

Arrogance - capital issue, CBN arrest

in some ways his rule was not that bad. Education and medical sectors improved a lot. Polavaram he made decent progress. 

[JAMBALHOT_RAJA]

3 minutes ago, ManOffSteel said:

Over confidence - 30 years nene power lo unta

Wrong guidance - distribution of freebies will not create a loyal vote bank

Arrogance - capital issue, CBN arrest

in some ways his rule was not that bad. Education and medical sectors improved a lot. Polavaram he made decent progress. 

Aa decent progress in polavaram endo cheppu ?

[southyx]

18 minutes ago, ManOffSteel said:

in some ways his rule was not that bad. Education and medical sectors improved a lot. Polavaram he made decent progress. 

Meeru ilanti dream world lo unnaaru kaabatte janaalu 11 icchaaru.

Education and medical sector improved anta. Comedy. Govt dhaavakhanala lo goli billalu levu. Sudhi mandhu veyyadaniki sudhilu konadaniki dabbulu levu. Election time lo medical camps ani hadavudi chesaru. Center katte medical colleges ni sontha account lo vesukunnaaru. Andhulonu 5 medical colleges construction lo unnayi, migilina 12 colleges construction start cheyyaledhu.

Inka education improvement ante, G tho navvuthaaru, 40K schools lo oka 200 chools rangulesi, tables arrange chesi, fake pracharalu chesukunte education improve avuthundhaa? 4K aided schools close chesaadu. All these years AP lo education ki biggest role play chesindhi aided schools. Quality eudcation for very cheap fee ki provide chesthaadhu. British times nundi unnayi. 70 ellalo evaru vaati joliki vellaledhu. Avi unna lands dhobbeyadaniki close chesaadu. Avi okappudu towns ki dhooram ga undevi, ippudu towns perigi vaati land viluta perigindhi. Dhobbeyali try chesadu. TOEFL ani 3K crores scam. 3rd class vallaki TOEFL enti comedy gaa. 5 years lo okka teacher ni kooda recruit cheyyaledhu, okka teacher ni recruit cheyyakunda, English lo teach chese staff lekunda English lo teaching improve chesaada? Dhani result enti? 2019 ki mundhu 96% pass percentage unde tenth, inter pass percentage 60%-70% laki padipoyindhi. 6 lakh students school drop outs. Biggest school drops in country. I can list many more about how Jagan single handedly destoyed the AP education system anedhi. Education system anedhi 70 years nundi step by step build chesukuntu vacchaaru. Alantidhi 5 years lo sarvanashanam chesaadu. It will take at least another 10 years to put it in proper track.

Come out of dream world. ilanti abaddhalu cheppukuntu pothene 11 seats icchaaru.

[southyx]

23 minutes ago, niladisify said:

I remember before 2019 elections jaggad used to give moderately good speeches, atleast without script and targetting tdp policies. what happened to all that, why has he become so dumb now?

Is it because he realized after coming to power that it's not as easy as what he thought and lack of experience? or was he failed by his useless ministers and mlas? 

Even his recent speeches in siddham sabhalu were mediocre...

Political experts shed some of your opinions...no personal attacks here pls

Okko speech ki 25 times Prashank Kishore team rehearsal cheyinchaaru. Press-meets lo script marchipothe pakkane prompting ivvadaniki Buggana lanti vaallu undevallu. CM ayyaka ala prompting isthe chandalam ga untundhi. Inka ekkuva comedy avuthaadu.

[Pavanonline]

1 hour ago, ManOffSteel said:

Polavaram he made decent progress

😳

[JaiBalayyaaa]

 

 

[Pavanonline]

1 hour ago, southyx said:

Okko speech ki 25 times Prashank Kishore team rehearsal cheyinchaaru. Press-meets lo script marchipothe pakkane prompting ivvadaniki Buggana lanti vaallu undevallu. CM ayyaka ala prompting isthe chandalam ga untundhi. Inka ekkuva comedy avuthaadu.

abbo 2019 lo IPAC performances mamuluga undevi kavu college students tho 

[Naaperushiva]

1 hour ago, JAMBALHOT_RAJA said:

Aa decent progress in polavaram endo cheppu ?

spill way ki 47 gates or something edho vundhi kaaka...Nenu konchem recent gaa choosa 

big issue parties aside rendu parties dobbettayi together chaala donkalu vunnayi anipinchindhi

main issue diaphragm wall dobbesindhi ani dhaniki ycp batch saying copper dam kattakunda diaphragm construct cheyyatam big blunder ani dhaani valla 2019-2020 floods lo kottukupoyindhi ani...

Clear gaa details vunna vallu some of the information kindha ee article lo vundhi

or @dasari4kntr laanti vallu chooosi clear gaa veyyali

 

Unfinished after 20 yrs, Andhra’s Polavaram dam plagued by technical issues, funds crunch, politics

 

Since work on the project started in 2005, the project cost has swollen manifold. State govt officials hope that the upcoming general and assembly polls will help speed things up.

MOUSHUMI DAS GUPTA

20 February, 2024 09:44 am IST

 

Spillways of Polavaram dam. Construction of the spillways and 48 gates was completed in 2020 | Moushumi Das Gupta | ThePrint

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Polavaram (Andhra Pradesh): About half a dozen sophisticated vibro-compact machines are humming along the stretch of the Godavari River where the Polavaram dam will eventually come up, to strengthen the riverbed’s foundation, on a hot February afternoon.

Godavari’s water has been diverted from this stretch by building two temporary cofferdams — one upstream and the other downstream — to enable construction. Cofferdams are temporary structures erected to divert the river water during the construction phase, after which they are dismantled.

Close to 150 workers — a minuscule of what a project of this magnitude requires — are moving around doing what in engineering lingo is called “ground improvement work” or basic foundational work. Had the pace of work been struck to its original timeline, the Rs 47,725 crore Polavaram multi-irrigation project would have been ready by 2018.

But the project, comprising an earth-cum-rock filled dam, two canals, and a 960 MW hydropower plant, has missed multiple deadlines since work first began in 2004-05. 

 

A view of the site where the earth-cum-rock-filled Polavaram dam will come up | Moushumi Das Gupta | ThePrint

Twenty years on and approximately Rs 21,000 crore later, the project is about half-way complete, senior officials of the Andhra Pradesh water resources department, which is getting the project implemented, told ThePrint. Though the financial progress of the construction work is 74 percent, the overall work — including land acquisition, and resettlement and rehabilitation — is just 49.57 percent complete.

And, construction on the main Polavaram dam, which will have a storage capacity of 194 TMC (thousand million cubic feet), has not even started. When ThePrint visited the dam site last week, only some basic foundation work was underway.

While the delays have pushed the project’s new deadline to March 2026, engineers from the state’s water resources department at the work site believe it could also miss that date. But they also hope that, ahead of the assembly and general election, due in April-May, the Centre may green-light the revised cost estimate of the project — hit by a severe cash crunch — proposed by the state.

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Also Read: CAG calls Kaleshwaram project economically unviable — ‘every rupee spent would yield only 52 paise’

 

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Floods, damaged structures, fund crunch — what has marred, progress

Technological challenges, financial crunch, poor planning, the dilemma over finalising the design, politics and contractors getting thrown out midway have meant that the Polavaram irrigation project continues to hang fire, depriving the state’s residents of its benefits.

The humongous delay since 2004-05 has resulted in some of the dam structures suffering major damages on account of floods in the Godavari in the intervening years. A senior engineer from the water resources department, who is working on the project, said that during the 2019 floods, half of the diaphragm wall — the core of the main dam built to restrict seepage from upstream to downstream — was washed away. It was built at a cost of Rs 442 crore.   

The damaged diaphragm wall of the Polavaram dam. Portions of the diaphragm wall were washed away during the 2019 floods in the Godavari | Moushumi Das Gupta | ThePrint

Erecting a parallel diaphragm wall will cost approximately Rs 990 crore, a senior water resource department official told ThePrint. “A decision on whether to construct a parallel diaphragm wall or carry out repair of the existing structure is yet to be taken by the Central Water Commission. We have proposed erecting a parallel diaphragm wall as repairing the existing one could result in safety issues. We hope a decision is taken soon,” K. Narasimha Murthy, superintending engineer, Polavaram project, told ThePrint.

It’s only after the diaphragm wall has been constructed that work on the main dam can start.

 

Besides the diaphragm wall, floods in 2023 have also resulted in water seeping through the two cofferdams and inundating the riverbed where the dam has to be constructed. Last year, engineers had to install heavy-duty pumps to drain out the water from the riverbed at the construction site.

With pumps proving to be too time-consuming and costly, engineers did some out-of-the-box thinking and excavated a temporary channel to drain out the water downstream through gravity. Engineers now hope to drain out the water by next month from the expanse of the river bed, where the dam will come up.

“It’s very critically poised in terms of execution. The earlier mis-planning has delayed the project’s completion. Earlier, the project components were executed without any relevance to the SoPs of the major dams,” Narayana Reddy C., engineer-in-chief of Andhra Pradesh’s water resources department, told ThePrint. 

Graphic by Soham Sen, ThePrint

According to Reddy, the project was previously executed haphazardly. The diaphragm wall was built in the main dam area without completing the cofferdam.

 

“Because of heavy flooding during 2019 and 2020, water gushed from the unfinished portions of the cofferdam and scoured the river bed to a depth of almost 36 meters, damaging the diaphragm wall also,” he said.

After the incumbent Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) government came to power in 2019, the planning process for the entire project has been reassessed, Reddy said. “Now, the execution is on course and seepages that are occurring due to aging cofferdams are being addressed,” he said. 

The Andhra Pradesh Water Resources Department has sent the proposal to restore/construct the damaged diaphragm wall to the Central Water Commission and Polavaram Project Authority. 

“They have to decide on what option to choose — whether to repair the existing dam wall or go for a parallel diaphragm wall. A decision needs to be taken soon. Because we can’t build the dam till the diaphragm wall is ready,” Reddy said.  

 

In the 20 years that the project has been in the making, so far the right main canal is 92.75 percent complete, the left main canal 72.81 percent. The spillways and their 48 gates were completed in 2020. The two cofferdams are also ready now.

Land acquisition, and rehabilitation and resettlement — the two key components of the project — are just 22.36 percent complete, a senior state government official told ThePrint.

Once complete, the Polavaram project will benefit all 26 districts of the state directly or indirectly and help irrigate 7.20 lakh acres of land, meet the drinking water needs of 28 lakh people, and also generate 960 MW of power from the hydropower plant that is coming up. 

Fund crunch & politics

It’s not just the haphazard execution that has led to delay. A paucity of funds has also hit the project hard.    

 

While work on the project started in 2004-05, it was only during the bifurcation of the undivided Andhra Pradesh in 2014 into two states — Telangana and Andhra Pradesh — that it was declared a national project. This meant that the state government would execute the project on behalf of the Centre and would get reimbursed for every penny spent by the state to complete it. 

But the Centre and the Andhra Pradesh government have, over the last several years, locked horns over the actual cost of the project. While the Centre capped the project cost at the 2013-14 price level, which comes to Rs 29,027 crore, the state wanted the project cost to be approved based on the 2017-18 price level, which is Rs 47,725 crore. 

A view of signage at the Poavalaram project. Construction on the main Polavaram dam has not even started | Moushumi Das Gupta | ThePrint

After a lot of back and forth and several meetings between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Andhra Pradesh CM Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, a breakthrough seems to have been achieved.

“We are in 2023-24, almost a decade … So 2013-14 rates are highly impractical,” said Narayana Reddy C. to ThePrint. “On the request of our CM to the Prime Minister, broadly it is agreed that in the interest of the project, the more practical rates will be considered. The proposal is being considered. Shortly, the cabinet note will be finalised”.

 

There is a caveat though. According to the revised proposal, the Polavaram project is being executed in two phases.

In the first phase, the Centre will reimburse the cost required to complete the dam with the storage level of the reservoir up to a height of 41.15 metres as against the full reservoir level of 45.72 metres. 

“At 41.15 metres, we can impound 120 TMC of water, which can be immediately used for irrigation and drinking and other purposes. The idea is to get the project operational to an extent that some revenue can be generated by reaping early intermediate benefits. Meanwhile, the work can go on in the second phase, where the reservoir level will be completed up to 45.72 metres,” Reddy said. 

A storage level of 41.15 metres will require rehabilitation of 29,946 project displaced families (PDF) as against 93,000 PDFs if the storage level is 45.72 metres. 

 

Engineers and officials involved with the project say that unless the central government takes quick decisions to sanction the state’s revised project costs, it’s highly unlikely that the project will be completed by 2026. 

Politics over Polavaram

Polavaram project was first mooted in 1941 during the erstwhile Madras presidency. But because of technical difficulty in building the dam and the huge cost involved, it was put on the back burner. In 2004-05, the then CM of undivided Andhra Pradesh, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy took up the project — which was named Indira Sagar dam — under the Jalayagnam scheme. 

Construction of the two canals was taken up first but work moved at a snail’s pace. In 2014, when Chandrababu Naidu became the CM, the project got new momentum. It was also rechristened as Polavaram.

In 2017, the old contractor, Transstroy, who was awarded the project in 2013 by the then Congress government led by Kiran Kumar Reddy, was removed, and the project was given to Navayuga Engineering. 

 

The diaphragm wall was built during Naidu’s term, even though coffer dams were still incomplete.  

In 2019, soon after Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy took charge as CM, he replaced Navayuga with Megha Engineering Limited.

When work began in 2005, the Polavaram project was estimated to cost Rs 10,151 crore according to the 2005-06 price level. The project has since missed multiple deadlines, with its cost increasing manifold.

Will the Polavaram project meet the March 2026 deadline? Engineers on the site are not making any guesses, but Reddy, the engineer-in-chief of the Andhra Pradesh water resources department, calls it “an intricate question”

 

“It is linked with so many issues. Even my minister has said that we are at it and we want it to happen early but still there are so many issues, financial as well as design related,” he said.

This is an updated version of the report

(Edited by Uttara Ramaswamy)

[Naaperushiva]

2 hours ago, niladisify said:

I remember before 2019 elections jaggad used to give moderately good speeches, atleast without script and targetting tdp policies. what happened to all that, why has he become so dumb now?

Is it because he realized after coming to power that it's not as easy as what he thought and lack of experience? or was he failed by his useless ministers and mlas? 

Even his recent speeches in siddham sabhalu were mediocre...

Political experts shed some of your opinions...no personal attacks here pls

vaadiki nenu Godly figure ane feel vacchindhi anukunta...aa EGO ahambhavam clearly kanipisthundhi 

[manadonga]

2 hours ago, ManOffSteel said:

Over confidence - 30 years nene power lo unta

Wrong guidance - distribution of freebies will not create a loyal vote bank

Arrogance - capital issue, CBN arrest

in some ways his rule was not that bad. Education and medical sectors improved a lot. Polavaram he made decent progress. 

Jagan closed 4000 schools some  has history of 100 yrs 

some of them including stron ycp families supporting schools like nuziveedu zamidari schools 

[dasari4kntr]

57 minutes ago, Naaperushiva said:

spill way ki 47 gates or something edho vundhi kaaka...Nenu konchem recent gaa choosa 

big issue parties aside rendu parties dobbettayi together chaala donkalu vunnayi anipinchindhi

main issue diaphragm wall dobbesindhi ani dhaniki ycp batch saying copper dam kattakunda diaphragm construct cheyyatam big blunder ani dhaani valla 2019-2020 floods lo kottukupoyindhi ani...

Clear gaa details vunna vallu some of the information kindha ee article lo vundhi

or @dasari4kntr laanti vallu chooosi clear gaa veyyali

 

Unfinished after 20 yrs, Andhra’s Polavaram dam plagued by technical issues, funds crunch, politics

 

Since work on the project started in 2005, the project cost has swollen manifold. State govt officials hope that the upcoming general and assembly polls will help speed things up.

MOUSHUMI DAS GUPTA

20 February, 2024 09:44 am IST

 

Spillways of Polavaram dam. Construction of the spillways and 48 gates was completed in 2020 | Moushumi Das Gupta | ThePrint

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Polavaram (Andhra Pradesh): About half a dozen sophisticated vibro-compact machines are humming along the stretch of the Godavari River where the Polavaram dam will eventually come up, to strengthen the riverbed’s foundation, on a hot February afternoon.

Godavari’s water has been diverted from this stretch by building two temporary cofferdams — one upstream and the other downstream — to enable construction. Cofferdams are temporary structures erected to divert the river water during the construction phase, after which they are dismantled.

Close to 150 workers — a minuscule of what a project of this magnitude requires — are moving around doing what in engineering lingo is called “ground improvement work” or basic foundational work. Had the pace of work been struck to its original timeline, the Rs 47,725 crore Polavaram multi-irrigation project would have been ready by 2018.

But the project, comprising an earth-cum-rock filled dam, two canals, and a 960 MW hydropower plant, has missed multiple deadlines since work first began in 2004-05. 

 

A view of the site where the earth-cum-rock-filled Polavaram dam will come up | Moushumi Das Gupta | ThePrint

Twenty years on and approximately Rs 21,000 crore later, the project is about half-way complete, senior officials of the Andhra Pradesh water resources department, which is getting the project implemented, told ThePrint. Though the financial progress of the construction work is 74 percent, the overall work — including land acquisition, and resettlement and rehabilitation — is just 49.57 percent complete.

And, construction on the main Polavaram dam, which will have a storage capacity of 194 TMC (thousand million cubic feet), has not even started. When ThePrint visited the dam site last week, only some basic foundation work was underway.

While the delays have pushed the project’s new deadline to March 2026, engineers from the state’s water resources department at the work site believe it could also miss that date. But they also hope that, ahead of the assembly and general election, due in April-May, the Centre may green-light the revised cost estimate of the project — hit by a severe cash crunch — proposed by the state.

---

Also Read: CAG calls Kaleshwaram project economically unviable — ‘every rupee spent would yield only 52 paise’

 

---

Floods, damaged structures, fund crunch — what has marred, progress

Technological challenges, financial crunch, poor planning, the dilemma over finalising the design, politics and contractors getting thrown out midway have meant that the Polavaram irrigation project continues to hang fire, depriving the state’s residents of its benefits.

The humongous delay since 2004-05 has resulted in some of the dam structures suffering major damages on account of floods in the Godavari in the intervening years. A senior engineer from the water resources department, who is working on the project, said that during the 2019 floods, half of the diaphragm wall — the core of the main dam built to restrict seepage from upstream to downstream — was washed away. It was built at a cost of Rs 442 crore.   

The damaged diaphragm wall of the Polavaram dam. Portions of the diaphragm wall were washed away during the 2019 floods in the Godavari | Moushumi Das Gupta | ThePrint

Erecting a parallel diaphragm wall will cost approximately Rs 990 crore, a senior water resource department official told ThePrint. “A decision on whether to construct a parallel diaphragm wall or carry out repair of the existing structure is yet to be taken by the Central Water Commission. We have proposed erecting a parallel diaphragm wall as repairing the existing one could result in safety issues. We hope a decision is taken soon,” K. Narasimha Murthy, superintending engineer, Polavaram project, told ThePrint.

It’s only after the diaphragm wall has been constructed that work on the main dam can start.

 

Besides the diaphragm wall, floods in 2023 have also resulted in water seeping through the two cofferdams and inundating the riverbed where the dam has to be constructed. Last year, engineers had to install heavy-duty pumps to drain out the water from the riverbed at the construction site.

With pumps proving to be too time-consuming and costly, engineers did some out-of-the-box thinking and excavated a temporary channel to drain out the water downstream through gravity. Engineers now hope to drain out the water by next month from the expanse of the river bed, where the dam will come up.

“It’s very critically poised in terms of execution. The earlier mis-planning has delayed the project’s completion. Earlier, the project components were executed without any relevance to the SoPs of the major dams,” Narayana Reddy C., engineer-in-chief of Andhra Pradesh’s water resources department, told ThePrint. 

Graphic by Soham Sen, ThePrint

According to Reddy, the project was previously executed haphazardly. The diaphragm wall was built in the main dam area without completing the cofferdam.

 

“Because of heavy flooding during 2019 and 2020, water gushed from the unfinished portions of the cofferdam and scoured the river bed to a depth of almost 36 meters, damaging the diaphragm wall also,” he said.

After the incumbent Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) government came to power in 2019, the planning process for the entire project has been reassessed, Reddy said. “Now, the execution is on course and seepages that are occurring due to aging cofferdams are being addressed,” he said. 

The Andhra Pradesh Water Resources Department has sent the proposal to restore/construct the damaged diaphragm wall to the Central Water Commission and Polavaram Project Authority. 

“They have to decide on what option to choose — whether to repair the existing dam wall or go for a parallel diaphragm wall. A decision needs to be taken soon. Because we can’t build the dam till the diaphragm wall is ready,” Reddy said.  

 

In the 20 years that the project has been in the making, so far the right main canal is 92.75 percent complete, the left main canal 72.81 percent. The spillways and their 48 gates were completed in 2020. The two cofferdams are also ready now.

Land acquisition, and rehabilitation and resettlement — the two key components of the project — are just 22.36 percent complete, a senior state government official told ThePrint.

Once complete, the Polavaram project will benefit all 26 districts of the state directly or indirectly and help irrigate 7.20 lakh acres of land, meet the drinking water needs of 28 lakh people, and also generate 960 MW of power from the hydropower plant that is coming up. 

Fund crunch & politics

It’s not just the haphazard execution that has led to delay. A paucity of funds has also hit the project hard.    

 

While work on the project started in 2004-05, it was only during the bifurcation of the undivided Andhra Pradesh in 2014 into two states — Telangana and Andhra Pradesh — that it was declared a national project. This meant that the state government would execute the project on behalf of the Centre and would get reimbursed for every penny spent by the state to complete it. 

But the Centre and the Andhra Pradesh government have, over the last several years, locked horns over the actual cost of the project. While the Centre capped the project cost at the 2013-14 price level, which comes to Rs 29,027 crore, the state wanted the project cost to be approved based on the 2017-18 price level, which is Rs 47,725 crore. 

A view of signage at the Poavalaram project. Construction on the main Polavaram dam has not even started | Moushumi Das Gupta | ThePrint

After a lot of back and forth and several meetings between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Andhra Pradesh CM Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, a breakthrough seems to have been achieved.

“We are in 2023-24, almost a decade … So 2013-14 rates are highly impractical,” said Narayana Reddy C. to ThePrint. “On the request of our CM to the Prime Minister, broadly it is agreed that in the interest of the project, the more practical rates will be considered. The proposal is being considered. Shortly, the cabinet note will be finalised”.

 

There is a caveat though. According to the revised proposal, the Polavaram project is being executed in two phases.

In the first phase, the Centre will reimburse the cost required to complete the dam with the storage level of the reservoir up to a height of 41.15 metres as against the full reservoir level of 45.72 metres. 

“At 41.15 metres, we can impound 120 TMC of water, which can be immediately used for irrigation and drinking and other purposes. The idea is to get the project operational to an extent that some revenue can be generated by reaping early intermediate benefits. Meanwhile, the work can go on in the second phase, where the reservoir level will be completed up to 45.72 metres,” Reddy said. 

A storage level of 41.15 metres will require rehabilitation of 29,946 project displaced families (PDF) as against 93,000 PDFs if the storage level is 45.72 metres. 

 

Engineers and officials involved with the project say that unless the central government takes quick decisions to sanction the state’s revised project costs, it’s highly unlikely that the project will be completed by 2026. 

Politics over Polavaram

Polavaram project was first mooted in 1941 during the erstwhile Madras presidency. But because of technical difficulty in building the dam and the huge cost involved, it was put on the back burner. In 2004-05, the then CM of undivided Andhra Pradesh, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy took up the project — which was named Indira Sagar dam — under the Jalayagnam scheme. 

Construction of the two canals was taken up first but work moved at a snail’s pace. In 2014, when Chandrababu Naidu became the CM, the project got new momentum. It was also rechristened as Polavaram.

In 2017, the old contractor, Transstroy, who was awarded the project in 2013 by the then Congress government led by Kiran Kumar Reddy, was removed, and the project was given to Navayuga Engineering. 

 

The diaphragm wall was built during Naidu’s term, even though coffer dams were still incomplete.  

In 2019, soon after Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy took charge as CM, he replaced Navayuga with Megha Engineering Limited.

When work began in 2005, the Polavaram project was estimated to cost Rs 10,151 crore according to the 2005-06 price level. The project has since missed multiple deadlines, with its cost increasing manifold.

Will the Polavaram project meet the March 2026 deadline? Engineers on the site are not making any guesses, but Reddy, the engineer-in-chief of the Andhra Pradesh water resources department, calls it “an intricate question”

 

“It is linked with so many issues. Even my minister has said that we are at it and we want it to happen early but still there are so many issues, financial as well as design related,” he said.

This is an updated version of the report

(Edited by Uttara Ramaswamy)

జరిగిన వాటి గురించి చర్చించి లాభంలేదు bro…i think there are only two options…

1. center should take care of this project end to end…thats option one…

2. or if state is continue doing this..that state govt should stay in power atleast 10 years …. our ap people is giving landslide victories every time…so the winning parties are taking advantage of this…with out opposition…

[Naaperushiva]

4 minutes ago, dasari4kntr said:

జరిగిన వాటి గురించి చర్చించి లాభంలేదు bro…i think there are only two options…

1. center should take care of this project end to end…thats option one…

2. or if state is continue doing this..that state govt should stay in power atleast 10 years …. our ap people is giving landslide victories every time…so the winning parties are taking advantage of this…with out opposition…

couldn't agree more baa esply second point... endho manollu assalu aa landslide victories..

But i feel TDP can stay in power for 10 yrs choodam fingers crossed.

[southyx]

6 minutes ago, dasari4kntr said:

జరిగిన వాటి గురించి చర్చించి లాభంలేదు bro…i think there are only two options…

1. center should take care of this project end to end…thats option one…

2. or if state is continue doing this..that state govt should stay in power atleast 10 years …. our ap people is giving landslide victories every time…so the winning parties are taking advantage of this…with out opposition…

First option ki velithe machipovcchu. National water projects central govt katte projects lo gatha 20 years okkati munduku poledhu, completion rate 3% emo undhi. State Govt theesukuntene complete avuthayi. Look at Narmada project in Gujrath during Modi's time, or Kaleswaram in TG. Kaleswaram design thappo, uppo..but works ayithe chesaaru. Polavaram complete avvali ante state Govt maathrame cheyyagaladhu.

[dasari4kntr]

1 minute ago, southyx said:

First option ki velithe machipovcchu. National water projects central govt katte projects lo gatha 20 years okkati munduku poledhu, completion rate 3% emo undhi. State Govt theesukuntene complete avuthayi. Look at Narmada project in Gujrath during Modi's time, or Kaleswaram in TG. Kaleswaram design thappo, uppo..but works ayithe chesaaru. Polavaram complete avvali ante state Govt maathrame cheyyagaladhu.

ok…then second option…

every 5 years కి ఇలా గవర్నమెంట్ huge margin తో మారిపోయి…క్రెడిట్ కొట్టేసే పనిలో work redo avutundi….