Eac holds assembly on Polavaram- Banakacherla Venture

Water Sources Minister Nimmala Ramanaidu addressing the media on the secretariat on June 17. Photograph credit score: the Hindu

The environmental appraisal committee (eac) of the union ministry of atmosphere transformed a gathering to discus the environmental clearance for the Godavari-Benakherla Venture on Tuesday (Jun 17, 2025).

The committee is LED by professor chakrapani, and the assembly was assist in digital mode from the ministry’s workplace in new delhi. As a part of this assembly, the committee is reviewing the proposal submitted by the Andhra Pradesh Authorities and can consider the environmental impression of the banakacherla challenge.

The Water Sources Division Officers Contemplate the Assembly of the Eac as a Main Milestone within the Approval Course of. The committee is now assessing the possible environmental penalties of endeavor the challenge.

Based mostly on the Committee’s Report, Subsequent Permissions Will Be Thought-about. Recognizing the significance of the second, the ap authorities is remedy this assembly with utmost serialness.

The AP Authorities could be requested to conduct the environmental impression, research, and many others. The eac, at current, is examine the pre-feasibility report (PFR) of the Godavari-Bankacherla Hyperlink Venture Proposed by Andhra Pradesh. The eac analysis report will play a vital position in figuring out the challenge’s future permissions. At a later stage, the detailed challenge report (DPR) could be ready.

The eac assembly assumes significance within the wake of the telangana authorities’s serial objections to the challenge. Telangana Irrigation Minister Uttam Kumar Reddy has written a letter to the eac, urging it to not grant any approval and to outrightly rejected reject the banakacherla challenge.

He said that the Andhra Pradesh Authorities was transferring forward with the challenge with out prior consent or notification to telangana. The challenge seeks to divert the Godavari watters to the krishna basin, which he claims will lead to Violating Telangana’s Respectable Water Rights. He stangly urged that no environmental clearance be granted to the challenge.