Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his intervention to direct the union Finance Ministry and Union Jala Shakti Ministry to release funds for Polavaram and support the state government to complete the project by December 2021.

The AP Water Resource Minister released the letter written by Chief Minister on October 28 to the media here on Saturday. Amid fresh controversy over the total cost of the project, the Chief Minister tried to draw the attention of the Prime Minister to the decision of the revised cost committee of the Jala Shakti Ministry which had put the total project cost at Rs. 47,617.74 Crore on June 03, 2020 as against Rs. 55,548.87 Crore recommended by the technical advisory committee on February 18, 2019.