The Andhra Pradesh state assembly Tuesday, by a resolution, urged the Centre to complete Polavaram project in three years and replacing the ordinance with the act to merge with the state the villages which may be submerged by the project waters. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, who moved the resolution that was unanimously passed later, said the irrigation project could be constructed only by merging with the state the 200 villages threatened with submergance. He demanded that the project be completed as per the design prepared by the Central Water Commission (CWC) and within three years. Noting the project would ensure irrigation and drinking water to five or six districts, he opined that the interests of Telangana would not be affected by ...

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