The Nagarjuna Sagar Project engineers and officials, who have been tasked with the project operations were threatened and prevented from discharging their duties by the APSP police for two days.
The union Minister for Jal Shakti had also made it clear at the second Apex council meeting that the inter-basin transfer of water can be considered only after fulfilling the in-basin needs by according its due priority.
It will be held on October 6 to discuss on the indents to be placed by the two states to meet their drinking water needs from October 23 to May 31, 2024.
Telangana has sought the intervention of the Krishna River Management Board to stop the lining works taken up by Andhra Pradesh on the Srisailam Right Main Canal
Engineer in Chief (General) Irrigation Department, C Muralidhar wanted KRMB to assess the drinking water needs by taking into consideration the water availability in the Krishna basin projects
The State been staking claim for it in lieu of 80 TMC of Godavari water being diverted by AP to Krishna basin through the Pattiseema and Polavaram projects
Both the Telugu States, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, were at loggerheads on the issue at the last meeting of the River management board held on May 10
Nine years since the division of the State, the Board continued to function much to the convenience of the riparian States from the Jala Soudha office in Hyderabad
The Engineer –in- Chief (General), Irrigation and CAD, C Muralidhar also requested KRMB to address the issue to Environment Impact Assessment Authority of the Ministry of Environment and Forests to keep in abeyance the environment clearance granted to the scheme
The telemetry systems are expected to help provide real time data of the inflows and outflows, especially the drawals being made by the riparian States
Telangana has been demanding water sharing at 50:50 ratio by scrapping the ad hoc arrangement that allowed 66 per cent of assured water to Andhra as against 34 per cent to Telangana
Representatives of Telangana will press for allocation of water on a 50:50 ratio till the Brijesh Kumar Tribunal makes project-wise allocation of water
Despite serious objections being raised to the present pattern of sharing on 66:34 ratio between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, the issue could not be addressed so far
In a letter addressed to the Chairman, KRMB, C Muralidhar, Engineer in Chief (Irrigation and CAD) sought immediate steps to stop diversion of Krishna water