After slinging enough mud at each other, chief minister Chandrababu Naidu and opposition leader Jaganmohan Reddy agreed to finish the 'incomplete' task initiated by then chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on September 5, 2008, when the YSR-led Congress government and Naidu-led TDP joined hands to adopt a resolution with the same demand - urging the Centre to ensure that the lake contour be brought down from its level 5 to level 3 in order to help "farmers protect their livelihood."
Interestingly, the boundary of the lake was fixed at contour plus 5 level (so that the lake can be preserved) by none other than Chandrababu Naidu himself when he was the chief minister in 1999. In the assembly on Tuesday, while Jagan was unsparing in attacking Naidu for the delay in reducing the lake size, the CM said it was Jagan's father YSR who was responsible for the plight of the farmers.
"Why didn't you do this in the nine years when you were chief minister," Jagan asked Naidu, and praised his father YSR for contemplating the reduction of the size of the lake in 2008. Incidentally, the TDP supremo had whole-heartedly supported the resolution moved by the then forest minister S Vijayarama Raju in 2008. However, Jagan appreciated Naidu's 'belated attempt' to carry forward the task left behind by YSR.
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On his part, Naidu said Jagan had no knowledge of past events and should learn or listen to the elders in the House. YSR, according to the CM, moved the resolution not out of affection for farmers, but following a revolt by the people against his 'anti-aquaculture' policies. Jagan said he would cooperate fully with the TDP government in adopting the resolution even though Naidu had 'ignored' the issue earlier.
Naidu promised that he would help about 3 lakh farmers without harming the ecology of the lake and added that an expert committee and a technical committee would be appointed, if necessary to, guide the government.
The decision to reduce the contour level of Kolleru is bound to have lake lovers and environmentalists up in arms. The power to decide the boundary contour lies with the Centre and the empowered committee appointed by the Supreme Court on ecological issues. The total area of the lake, which is a declared wildlife sanctuary, is 95,400 hectares at contour plus level 10.7. The area came down to 30,855 hectares when Naidu's 1999 GO 120 fixed the contour level 5 as the boundary. Now if the contour is brought down to level 3, the lake would shrink to just 13,500 hectares. The land thus released due to the contour change would be available for farmers for activities like aquaculture and paddy cultivation, which in fact played key role in devastating the lake's ecosystem.
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