At a massive rally in Achampet, BRS leader K.T. Rama Rao launched a scathing attack on the Congress government over Karnataka’s decision to raise the Almatti dam height, warning it would devastate Telangana’s irrigation projects.
Hyderabad: Sounding a warning against the impending danger posed by the Karnataka government’s move to further raise the height of the Almatti dam , BRS working president KT Rama Rao said on Sunday that it would adversely impact the Krishna river water flows to both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
Addressing a mammoth Jana Garjana rally at Achampet, he said the move to augment the storage capacity by raising its height by five metres in the Karnataka project at a cost of Rs 70,000 crore would turn the arid Palamuru region into a desert, leaving its key ir