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Meeting of Irrigation Ministers from Krishna basin States to put in place stable water-sharing framework for next two-and-half decades

Ministers from Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana invited for crucial meeting, which is intended to discuss gazette notification on the award of Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal-II

Senior Counsel CS Vaidyanathan highlighted the diversion arrangements from Polavaram and Pattiseema Lift Irrigation Schemes to the Prakasam Barrage at how they can be detrimental to the interests of Telangana State

Viability of lift schemes explained in detail, stressing that these can support irrigation for at least a single crop

An application was filed in the Supreme Court on June 9, 2021, withdrawing the writ petition that was filed in 2015, Special Chief Secretary to Government, Irrigation, said in a letter to the Secretary, Union Ministry of Jal Shakti, on Tuesday.