No info on PM's meet on Polavaram: Odisha CM

WHILE Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to hold a high-level meeting on the contentious Polavaram project with CMs of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Telangana during the end of this month, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Monday said he has not yet received any information on the meeting.

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Bhubaneswar

Majhi, however, indicated that the PM has scheduled a meeting with the chief secretaries, secretaries of departments concerned and other senior officers without mentioning any specific date. "I have no information about any meeting on Polavaram by the Prime Minister with Chief Ministers of four states. The PM may have a meeting with top officials of the States in which our chief secretary and department secretary will put forth the stand taken by Odisha. Whenever there will be a meeting with Chief Ministers, we will put forth our case keeping the State's interests at the top," Majhi said. In fact, a preparatory meeting was recently held under the chairmanship of th