Hyderabad: Industry and Information Technology Minister K.T. Rama Rao has urged the Prime Minister to direct the high-powered steering committee to consider Telangana projects for the national status at its meeting on December 6.

He recalled that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao appealed several times to grant national project status to either Kaleshwaram project or Palamuru lift irrigation project. “While Polavaram in AP & Upper Bhadra in Karnataka are being recognised as national projects, kindly ensure that the world’s largest multi-stage lift irrigation project Kaleshwaram or Palamuru project are considered with equal importance,” wrote KTR, as the minister is popularly known.