Andhra Pradesh rejected Telangana’s move to make Inchampalli the source point for the Godavari-Cauvery river linking project, insisting on Polavaram instead. The objection, raised at an NWDA meeting, highlighted growing conflicts among partner states over water allocations and project boundaries
Demand alternative arrangements to be made for diverting Godavari waters to Wyra reservoir by constructing an escape channel at Ginnelavagu to provide water to the lands of erstwhile Khammam district
The initiative was aimed to provide a permanent solution to Hyderabad's drinking water woes and bring new agricultural areas under irrigation under these projects, he said.The Singur, Manjeera, and Nizam Sagar projects are all built on the Manjeera river, which is a tributary of the Godavari.
BRS leader and former Minister G Jagadish Reddy wanted irrigation authorities to appraise the NDSA of the situation prevailing under the reservoirs fed by the KLIS and obtain permission to make use of all the KLIS barrages.
Proposing Rs.28,024 crore for irrigation in the budget, the Finance Minister said the State government was aiming at completing the Dr BR Ambedkar Pranahita Chevella project to irrigate the upper regions of Telangana.
Buoyed at seeing Godavari water, local farmers performed pujas to the water at Srigada bridge and also performed palabhishekam to the portraits of CM KCR and MAUD Minister KT Rama Rao
