Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao appears to have dropped the plan to take a huge contingent of journalists to Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project at Medigadda on Godavar river.
KCR had recently announced that he would take more than 300 media persons from electronic and print media, including editors and top representatives, to Kaleshwaram project site in the last week of July or first week of August.
While editors and important media representatives were to be flown in three special helicopters, other media representatives would be taken to the project site through special buses, the CMO officials said.
However, no such proposal had come from the CMO after that, though the first week of August would end by Wednesday.
Enquiries revealed that the chief minister had not raised the topic after that and no official either from the Information department or the media wing of the CMO had dared to broach the subject with KCR.
On the other hand, the chief minister himself went on an aerial survey of the Godavari river and visited the Kaleshwaram project on Tuesday.
He went round the 140 km long area from Medigadda to Dharmapuri, where Godavari water was flowing with full force.
He made an offering to the river Godavari and inspected the increased water levels and other works that are in progress.
The media had to remain content with the press release from the chief minister’s office!
