Overview
- The state opened Premier Energies’ 75-acre solar module plant with 5.6 GW capacity and about 3,000 promised jobs after a July 9 inauguration that the government says anchors its PURE manufacturing zone.
- The Chief Minister on Saturday ruled out lifting water from the Kannepalli pump house, citing National Dam Safety Authority findings that Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla barrages are unsafe for impounding water and need redesign.
- BRS leader K. T. Rama Rao and a group of retired engineers say pumps can be run to fill downstream reservoirs without closing Medigadda, urging immediate action to help farmers and warning of mounting irrigation shortfalls.
- The Union Ministry of Jal Shakti formed a Technical Oversight Committee on June 30 to supervise rehabilitation work and is expected to review designs and report by the end of August before any pumping resumes.
- Revanth Reddy is using recent inaugurations and a CURE/PURE/RARE zoning plan to frame an economic and electoral narrative tied to proposed delimitation, while opponents portray the water decision as politically driven and warn of farmer hardship.