"krmb"

Minister Uttam Kumar Reddy charged that after Telangana formation sufficient attention was not given to the requirements of the Krishna basin

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.

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.

Telangana government asked C Muralidhar, Engineer-in-Chief (General) to resign while another senior engineering official of the same rank, N Venkateswarlu, who was in-charge of the implementation of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project was removed from service

BJP government at the Centre was trying to benefit from the Krishna River water issue between Andhra and Telangana, said Tammineni

The BRS government had also protected the rights of Telangana over the Krishna river projects, all the while resisting pressure from the Centre.

Having come to power, now they need to take a legitimate stand on the issue to serve the interests of the State in the long run, BRS leader V Prakash Rao said

Harish Rao, who condemned the foul language used by Revanth Reddy in Sunday’s press conference, said the Chief Minister’s arguments were baseless as he had hardly any knowledge of the underlying facts

The meeting strongly condemned the Congress government's decision to hand over projects including the Nagarjuna Sagar and Srisailam to the Krishna River Management Board

Challenging Chandrashekhar Rao to a debate on the handing over of the irrigation projects during the forthcoming Assembly session, Revanth Reddy said a white paper would be released on the irrigation sector.

On Friday, Irrigation Secretary Rahul Bojja and Engineer-in-Chief (General) C Muralidhar emphasized that no decision has been made regarding transferring operational control of the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam and Srisailam project to the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB)

On Friday, members of Parliament from the BRS expressed vehement objection to the Ministry of Jal Shakti's decision to transfer jurisdiction and management of joint projects in the Krishna basin to the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB)

The decision to concede the monitoring protocols to the board was much in contrary to the claims of the State government that no project was conceded to the board so far.

The Chief Minister directed the irrigation officials to prepare a comprehensive report on all the meetings on River Krishna held since the formation of Telangana so far.

Telangana left with only 7 tmc in Nagarjuna Sagar for meeting drinking water supply in next six months.

Dismissing BRS leader, T Harish Rao's contention that the State government had already conceded the operational control of the NSP to the KRMB, Uttam Kumar Reddy called it a false assumption

The decision of the Ministry of Jal Shakti to hand over the operational control of the joint projects of the two Telugu states to the Krishna River Management Board is driven by a political agenda

The meeting was convened as a follow up to review “present situation” at the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam. Half the dam was occupied by the forces deployed by AP on November 29

The board called for the KRMB meeting to discuss it's money woes.

The two river boards, that were set up under the AP State Reorganisation Act, 2014 have been seeking immediate release of funds due to them from both the beneficiary States