Hyderabad: The Telangana government has written to the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti, seeking to stop the funding of the Veligonda Project under the "Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana - Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme". This project is under construction in Andhra Pradesh. In a letter to the ministry, state engineer-in-chief C Muralidhar on Friday said the project was taken up by the Andhra Pradesh government on the basis of surplus water from the Krishna river and has no approval of the Central Water Commission.  

The project was shown as a rejected project in a gazette notification issued by the ministry in July this year.He explained in the letter that there is no allocation of water to the project by the Krishna Water Dispute Tribunal -2. 

"It envisaged diversion of the Krishna water to other basins and is being vehemently opposed by Telangana before the tribunal." Muralidhar said, "As the unapproved project is diverting the Krishna water outside the basin, it is not correct to provide funding under the Central scheme."

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