Hyderabad, Nov 3 (PTI) Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Monday said the state government would complete the pending works of the 42-km SLBC tunnel project, touted as the world’s longest.

Speaking to reporters after launching the Aerial Electromagnetic Survey for the Srisailam Left Bank Canal tunnel works in Nagarkurnool district, Reddy said the previous BRS government could not complete even 10 km of the tunnel.

He noted that about 30 km of the work had been completed between 2004 and 2014, when the Congress was in power in undivided Andhra Pradesh.

“Had (then CM) Chandrasekhar Rao and the BRS government worked sincerely and completed even one km a year, the project would have been done by now," he said.

Reddy alleged that the former CM KCR ignored the project “with ill inte

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