Very good story. However, NEAA should have explicitly ordered that the work on the dam should be stopped. Without such explicit order, it is not likely that the work will be stopped by the AP government. AP government has been going ahead with the work illegally, as it neither Orissa, nor Chhattisgarh have agreed to the project, nor has the Central Water Commission given its clearance. In fact three agencies that should face consequences for the illegal construction fo the dam are the state government, Central Water Commission and the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. Why did the MEF give clearance to the project for which other concerned states are opposing the project? Why did Central Water Commission, which also has a representative on the MEF's expert appraisal committee on river valley projects, agree to giving clearance to the project for which it knew that the other participating states are not agreeable? Indeed, why did the CWC not take action to stop the illegal construction of the project? The Project construction is going on even as the R&R plan has not been approved by the Union Ministry for Tribal Affairs, at least for Orissa and Chhattisgarh. Cases are pending before the Supreme Court on this project. In fact earlier this year, when Supreme Court allowed the state to go ahead with only Survey work regarding the project, the state government construed it to be an approval for construction and has continued the construction on the dam. What is also shocking is that Union Ministry of Water Resources have inclusion of the project in the 11th Plan, even as it knows that its own CWC has yet to give clearance to the project. Hope MINT will write on these related issues.