VIJAYAWADA: Water Resources Minister Devineni Umamaheswara Rao has said that he had requested Union Minister Nitin Gadkari to convene a meeting of the officials from Central Water Commission, Ministry of Water Resources and State government for expediting the approval for the revised detailed project report (DPR) on the Polavaram project.
The minister, on Thursday, informed the media that he had sent a missive last week requesting the Centre to release `10,000 crore for the project. He said that he thanked the Union minister for releasing `1,400 crore through NABARD. The minister also said that the Centre has reimbursed `6,727 crore out of the `8,619 crore spent by the State government for the project after it was declared a national project.