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The writ petition challenged GO no 34 of 2021 on hydel power generation by the State. He defended the order and the stand of Telangana.
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Both the states had responded positively with an emphatic 'yes' on the issue of clearing the dues owed to the boards. But their assurances die not yield funds.
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The salaries component alone would be in the order of Rs 6.05 crores while Rs 4.89 crores would go for payment of allowances.
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K Chandrashekhar Rao said the Congress government had failed on all fronts
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The NSP tail pond has a storage capacity of 7 tmc. It is a multipurpose reservoir 21 km downstream of the main project. It is meant for storing the water released from the project for power generation.
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The AP Re-organization Act, 2014, mandates that the successor states -Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, provide necessary funds to KRMB for its functioning besides the staff salaries and allowances.
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The three-member committee of the River Management Board, which met here, discussed the drinking water needs of both states and the utilisation of 80 tmc of water allotted to them in October.
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This could have been utilised for filling as many as 19 reservoirs under the project. He also wondered why the State representatives had abstained from the three-member committee meeting of the KRMB two days ago.
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But certain structural issues observed in the project have to be addressed on permanent basis on the 57-year-old major irrigation project.
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In addition to the regular maintenance works, the NDSA team that visited the project some time ago, had also identified certain shortcomings in the maintenance.
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The KRMB wanted the State to release the required quantum of water to Andhra Pradesh from March 7
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In a letter addressed to the State Engineer-in-Chief (irrigation), KRMB made it clear that no decision can be taken by it as no consensus was arrived on the issue
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The State government was supplying adequate power to meet the energy demand and no official power cuts would be imposed by the government, said Revanth Reddy
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The KRMB also rejected its plea to consider 18.70 tmc of water (saved by the State from its previous water year share) as carryover part of water in the Nagarajuna Sagar Project
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BRS launched a determined onslaught against the Congress government for its failure to safeguard State's jurisdiction of the Nagarjuna Sagar Project and nine of the 15 outlets of joint projects in Krishna basin that were under its control so far
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Telangana Assembly passed a unanimous resolution resolving that common projects would not be handed over to Krishna River Management Board unless the conditions put forth by the State government were fulfilled
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The Congress-led UPA government too had done injustice to people of Telangana by not considering the rightful share of the State in the AP Reorganisation Act-2014, BJP member Maheshwar Reddy said
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Minister Uttam Kumar Reddy charged that after Telangana formation sufficient attention was not given to the requirements of the Krishna basin
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Describing Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy as lacking in-depth understanding, senior BRS leader G Jagadish Reddy asserted on Saturday that the shortcomings of the Congress government in safeguarding the State's interests would be unveiled by BRS president K Chandrashekhar Rao during the upcoming public gathering in Nalgonda on February 13th.
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Both Krishna and Godavari Rivers face this peculiar situation to be managed by the respective River management boards. However, this problem is acute in case of Krishna River as one flank each of Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar projects fall in each state.