Polavaram project

Subject – Geography

Context – Polavaram — displaced and nowhere to go: Several await houses, compensation

Concept –

Polavaram Project is located in Andhra Pradesh on the river Godavari, near Polavaram village.
It is a multi-purpose irrigation project as the project once completed will provide Irrigation benefits and will generate HydroElectric Power. In addition, this project will also supply drinking water.
It will facilitate an inter-basin transfer to the Krishna river basin through its Right canal.
It will also provide indirect benefits such as development of Pisciculture (breeding and rearing of fish), tourism and urbanisation.
The Project has been accorded national project status by the union government in 2014 (under Section-90 of Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act, 2014).
Its reservoir spreads in parts of Chhattisgarh and Orissa States also.