Bengaluru: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday December 28 said that he will request Karnataka to stop the work of raising the height of Alamatti Dam on the Krishna River till an ongoing study to assess its flood impact in Sangli and Kolhapur is completed.
Fadnavis was replying to a question in the Maharashtra State Assembly. He said that if the Karnataka Government did not act upon Maharashtra’s request then he would approach the Supreme Court. The study panel was set up under the Chairmanship of Water Resources Department’s Former Principal Secretary Nandkumar Wadnera after the floods of 2019 in two districts.
The Wadnera Report, submitted on May 27, 2020, had stated there would be no adverse impact in Kolhapur and Sangli if the height of the Dams of Alamatti and Hippargi was raised.
