Polavaram: Agency Girijans face threat of evacuation మే 28, 2013
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Polavaram: Agency Girijans face threat of evacuation
May 24, 2013, The Hans India
Khammam: Several hundreds of Girijans living in the Agency area of Khammam district are facing threat of evacuation due to the construction of Polavaram Major Irrigation Project across Godavari in Polavaram mandal of West Godavari district. West Godavari district spreads on one side of Godavari while tribal villages in Khammam district spread on the other side.
These tribal thandas along the riverside of Godavari in Khammam district face the threat of evacuation. For establishing a project whether by Union Government or by State Government in the Agency area where Girijans live in large numbers, the consent of the local people (tribals) is essential. The government has to conduct Grama Sabhas at the affected villages. (మరింత…)
Polavaram dam fraud or confusion is beyond borders – Officials to visit Russia & China to verify ‘fake docs’ జనవరి 6, 2013
Posted by bharath in Andhrapreneurship, corruption, Polavaram.Tags: dam safety, indian embassy, jalayagnam, tender gifts
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Contradictory letters on Polavaram create confusion
Government in a bind over Centre’s papers on EC UES
Decision on finalisation of Polavaram tenders today, may go to Transstroy
A Ravindra Seshu, The Hans India, 6 Jan 2012
Hyderabad: The tender controversy of Polavaram – Indira Sagar irrigation project took another twist after the Union Ministry for Foreign Affairs wrote a letter to the state government stating that the experience certificates submitted by EC UES, a partnership company of Transstroy and which stood as L-1 in the third round tenders, as authenticated one.
Highly placed sources said that the state government received the letter from Union Ministry on Foreign Affairs (UMFA) two days back. In the letter, the UMFA said that it enquired all the allegations levelled against EC UES and found no truth in it. It said that the first secretary in Indian Embassy in Russia Ganesh enquired about the complaints against EC UES and uncovered the facts. (మరింత…)
Odisha opposes Polavaram dam at National Water Resources Council meet డిసెంబర్ 30, 2012
Posted by bharath in biodiversity, Congress, corruption, ecology, Koya, Polavaram.Tags: dam, displacement
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The Pioneer
Odisha opposes AP irrigation plan at meet
Saturday, 29 December 2012 PNS | Bhubaneswar
The State Government strongly opposed the ongoing controversial multipurpose Polavaram Irrigation Project of Andhra Pradesh at the 6th meeting of the National Water Resources Council held at New Delhi on Friday and accused the Centre of evading its responsibility in resolving the inter-State river dispute and forcing the State to seek recourse in legal remedies.
The Government urged the Centre at the meeting held under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to constitute a task force to examine the problems of flood, drainage congestion and coastal erosion of the State, besides demanding formulation of a comprehensive scheme to look at development of water resources in eastern region, including Odisha in a holistic manner. (మరింత…)
Polavaram project: Transstroy disputes allegation, says other bidders’ documents too not in order డిసెంబర్ 28, 2012
Posted by bharath in Andhrapreneurship, corruption, Polavaram, Telangana.Tags: Longtan Hydro Power Project, Madhucon, Soma CGGS, Transstroy
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Polavaram: Transstroy complains against other bidders
Special Correspondent, The Hindu, December 28, 2012
Transstroy consortium, the L1 bidder for the Polavaram project has complained to the Engineer-in-Chief that two other bidders, Soma CGGC joint venture and Madhucon Sino Hydro, submitted work experience certificates pertaining to the same project, executed in China.
Transstroy, along with its Russian-based JV JSC UES, has been under scanner of the high power committee over allegations that its work experience certificates were not authenticated by the competent authorities for the projects executed by them in Russia.
However, Transstroy disputed the allegation and showed again its work experience for the projects executed in Russia. It also submitted a certificate issued by a Russian government undertaking. (మరింత…)
లెక్కలు తేల్చాలి, అపోహలు పోవాలి – చలసాని శ్రీనివాస్ డిసెంబర్ 22, 2012
Posted by bharath in Andhra, Congress, Hyderabad, Polavaram, Rayalaseema, regionalism, suicide, Telangana, Telugu (తెలుగు), YSR.add a comment
లెక్కలు తేల్చాలి, అపోహలు పోవాలి
- చలసాని శ్రీనివాస్
1972లో ఆంధ్ర ఉద్యమాన్ని అణిచివేస్తూ డిసెంబరు 21న ప్రధాని ఇందిర అధికారికంగా రాష్ట్రాన్ని విడగొట్టేది లేదని ఆంధ్రులు శాశ్వతమని నమ్మారు. అదే రోజు విడిపోయి వుంటే తీర సీమాంధ్రలు దేశంలోనే నెంబర్ 1గా ఉండేవి. పోయి మీ ప్రాంతాలలో స్వాభిమానంతో పాటు బతకండని, తెలంగాణ వస్తే లక్షల మంది ఉద్యోగాలు లాక్కుని తీరుతామని బెదిరిస్తుంటే అక్కడ స్థిరపడ్డ మిగతా ప్రాంతవాసులు ఎక్కడికి పోవాలి.. చావాలా అంటూ ఆవేదన చెందే వారి ఇబ్బందులను పట్టించుకోవాలి కదా?
ఆంధ్రులూ ఆలోచించాలని లవణం, రమణ, రాంప్రసాద్లు రాసిన వ్యాసాల తీరు వేరుగా ఉన్నా మూడూ ఆంధ్రుల ఆవేదనను వెలిబుచ్చాయి. తీర సీమాంధ్రులు అన్ని విధాలుగా త్యాగంచేసినా ఎంతకాలమీ గొడవని విసుగు చెందే లవణం గారు ప్రత్యేక రాష్ట్రం కోరి ఉండవచ్చు. కోస్తా అభివృద్ధిని అడగక ఫక్తు రాజకీయ స్వార్థం కోసం జై ఆంధ్ర వాదులని విమర్శించే కొందరు సమైక్య వాదులు ఉన్నారు. అదే విధంగా కొద్దిమంది రియల్ ఎస్టేట్ బ్రోకర్లో లేదా కొందరు ప్రత్యేక తెలంగాణ నాయకుల కాల్మొక్కి వారి దయతోనో నీళ్ళెవడికీ అక్కర్లేదంటూ హైదరాబాద్ కె సిఆర్ గారి సొత్తనే జై ఆంధ్రవాదులూ ఉన్నారు.
వాస్తవానికి నీటి పారుదల, హైదరాబాద్లో స్థ్థిరపడ్డ వారి భవిష్యత్తు, తీర సీమాం ధ్ర యువత ఉపాధి-ఉద్యోగాల సమస్యలని విభజనకు ‘ముందే’ పరిష్కరించకుండా విభజనకి ఎవరు అంగీకరించినా అది కోస్తా , రాయలసీమ ప్రాంతాల వాసులకు ఖచ్చితంగా ఆత్మహత్యా సదృశమే అవుతుంది. నిజంగానే అలా హక్కులని తాకట్టు పెడితే ఇప్పుడు పెరిగిన రేట్లు నీటిపై రాసిన మాటలై గాలి బుడగలై నీరు, నిధులు, ఉద్యోగాలు ఏమీ దక్కవు; ఆ తరువాత కోస్తా, సీమ ప్రజలు బోరున విలపించినా లాభం ఉండదు. మోసపోవడం ఆంధ్రులకి కొత్త కాదు. (మరింత…)
Polavaram project- once again fraudulent contractors for criminal dam డిసెంబర్ 9, 2012
Posted by bharath in biodiversity, Polavaram.Tags: India Against Corruption, Rayapati Sambasiva Rao, UES-Transstroy
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Polavaram bid under a cloud
By Express News Service – HYDERABAD, 8TH December 2012
The Polavaram project contract was back to square Friday with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) reportedly informing the state’s Irrigation Department that the Russian company UES – part of the contract-winning consortium led by Transstroy — had submitted fake documents.
Though there was no official confirmation, the MEA observation would mean that the company would be blacklisted.
It may be recalled that after bidders Soma CGG and SEW had quoted high figures for the Rs 4,000 crore Polavaram head works, the state government opened the technical bid of the remaining four companies that had participated in the bidding. As the UES-Transstroy joint venture quoted the lesser rate, the state government almost finalised the tenders for the JV. However, a high-power committee headed by chief secretary Minnie Mathew and irrigation officials developed misgivings about the veracity of the documents submitted by UES-Transstroy and referred the matter to MEA. (మరింత…)
New Craft of Looting the Nation – Criminal Dams డిసెంబర్ 3, 2012
Posted by bharath in Andhrapreneurship, Congress, Polavaram, TDP, TRS.Tags: conspiracy of silence, corrupt dam, irrigation scam, Jala Yagnam, politician-bureaucrat-contractor nexus
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Only criminal probe can unravel scam in irrigation projects
Nauzer K Bharucha, TNN Nov 30, 2012
Mumbai: For the past ten years, a politician-bureaucrat-contractor nexus has had a free run of multi-crore irrigation projects in the state. Rules were blatantly flouted, project estimates illegally revised and permissions brazenly granted without adequate precautions and mandatory clearances.
Government sources said that only a criminal investigation could unravel the extent of the scam, described as the largest in Maharashtra’s history. “The white paper on irrigation projects submitted to the state cabinet on Thursday is merely a data collection exercise. If there is an independent judicial inquiry, the Democratic Front government will collapse, considering the involvement of powerful politicians and officials,” said a source. (మరింత…)
Polavaram dam tender- forged documents of Transstroy డిసెంబర్ 3, 2012
Posted by bharath in Andhrapreneurship, Congress, corruption, Polavaram, TDP, TRS.Tags: corrupt dam, scam in irrigation
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Polavaram dam in one more controversy
Polavaram project construction budget grows manifold – Tv9
Telangana State only after 2014 elections, says KCR నవంబర్ 12, 2012
Posted by bharath in Congress, elections, KCR, Polavaram, regionalism, suicide, TRS, Y S Jagan.Tags: 2014 elections, Jai Bolo Telangana, merger, Telangana vaadam, TJAC
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Telangana State only after 2014 elections, says KCR
Staff Reporter, The Hindu, Karimnagar, November 9, 2012
TRS chief asserts that party will not have any truck with Congress in future
The two-day brainstorming session of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti ended here on Thursday with its president K. Chandrasekhar Rao making two politically loaded statements of Telangana being a reality only after 2014 general elections and asserting that his party will not have any truck with the Congress in future.
TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao speaking to newsmen after the two-day brainstorming session in Karimnagar on Thursday. Photo: T Ajaypal Singh
Indicating that he was unsure of formation of separate State in the near future Mr. Rao said: “Now, the situation is ripe for TRS to emerge as a strong force in Telangana region by winning at least 100 Assembly seats and 15 Lok Sabha seats. No force can stop the formation of Telangana state after the coming general elections. It is not KCR, but the people of Telangana who will dictate terms to the Centre then, as we already have the support of 32 political parties.”
Conceding that the Congress has yet again betrayed on the separate State issue, Mr. Rao thundered: “There will be no more deadlines, only death-line for the Congress.” Briefing media persons over the deliberations, he took pains to explain in detail how the party was first engaged in consultations by the Congress leadership in Delhi and then deceived. After the general strike, when he met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi, he was asked to remain patient as a solution would be found soon. Then he met senior Congress leaders who came up with a list of conditions that included merger of his party with Congress. (మరింత…)
Polavaram tenders, a case of ‘quo pro quid’ ?? నవంబర్ 1, 2012
Posted by bharath in Andhra, biodiversity, Congress, corruption, Godavari, indigenous, Polavaram, politics, Telangana, TRS.Tags: Congress MP, dam, tender gifts, Transstroy India Limited
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Polavaram tenders, a case of ‘quo pro quid’ ??
by A Saye Sekhar, Frontpageindia.com Oct 31,2012
Transstroy India Ltd was selected for the execution of the massive Polavaram project. The project tenders became controversial twice and the Government had cancelled the tenders following legal intervention. In fact, the tender was given to SEW Infrastructure of CL Rajam, who is Chairman of Namaste Telangana newspaper and a close associate of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K Chandrasekhar Rao.
When the Government cancelled the earlier ones and called for tenders afresh, Transstroy India Ltd in which Guntur MP Rayapati Sambasiva Rao, has interests, and Soma Constructions came as L1 and L2. After the techno-economic analysis, the Engineer-in-Chief of multi-thousand-crore Polavaram Project awarded the execution order to Transstroy India Ltd, which was asked to submit the project schedule within 15 days. (మరింత…)
