Central govt responsible for completing Polavaram project: Jagan

Amaravati, Oct 25 : Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy said Polavaram Irrigation Project (PPA) is a national project which the Central government has a responsibility to complete.
He said the Central government has responsibility as per APR Act 2014 and a Central cabinet decision taken earlier.
He said Andhra Pradesh is only an executing authority of the project being monitored by PPA under Government of India.
Reddy held a review meeting on the project, attended by a bunch of ministers and senior officials where the latest developments were considered such as the reimbursement of balance expenditure incurred by the state government to the tune of Rs 4,014 crore.
Out of this amount, Rs 2,234 crore was proposed for extra budget release by the Union Ministry of Finance (MoF) to the Ministry of Jal Shakti (MoJS).
In the proposal, the MoF stated that the cost of irrigation component in the revised cost estimate shall be construed as approved by PPA at Rs 20,399 crore as on April 1, 2014.