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The inflows stand at 76000 cusecs and the discharges were being maintained proportionately.

Holding the Congress govt responsible for water crisis in Khammam, he demanded the govt to compensate the farmers with Rs 25,000 per acre on par with farmers whose crops were destroyed due to recent floods.

Irrigation authorities in both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are taking precautionary measures to handle the increasing flood flow by scaling up discharges at key projects

With floods in the Krishna river receding, the Irrigation Department officials on Monday closed all the crest gates of the Nagarjuna Sagar Project.

RTC officials said special deluxe buses are being operated from MGBS to Nagarjuna Sagar.

BRS working president KT Rama Rao stated that the Sunkishala incident did not involve any engineering or design failure, as alleged by the Congress regarding the Medigadda barrage. He clarified that the collapse of the retaining wall between two expansion joints was due to the improper fitting of gates, which lacked the necessary oversight from the responsible Minister.

Irrigation authorities are discharging over three lakh cusecs from Nagarjuna Sagar Project

The decision to lift the project gates was prompted by a substantial inflow of 4.22 lakh cusecs adding to the project storage by 33 to 35 TMC a day, largely due to heavy outflows from the Srisailam reservoir

Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy formally released water from the project to the canal system.

The schedules typically depend on the water levels in the reservoirs and the inflow of water.

As far as the Krishna basin projects are concerned, the worst is over and the inflows being received for the last one week are holding out hope for a normal year, irrigation officials said.

The Krishna catchment in Maharashtra and Karnataka continued to receive heavy rains and the inflows into the Upper Krishna projects right from Almatti remained on the rise.

In anticipation of water releases from Karnataka projects, about 20,000 cusecs of water was released from Srisailam adding to the present storage in Nagarjuna Sagar by one TMC.

Since the availability of water in Nagarjuna Sagar was much less than the total requirement of 9.914 TMC to be met, the KRMB had decided to draw water from the Srisailam project to meet the indent.

The Almatti dam started receiving inflows that are in the range of about 1,00,000 cusecs on Tuesday. The catchment of the upper Krishna irrigation projects in Karnataka have been receiving heavy rains for the last four days.

Major irrigation projects, barring Jurala, have received no significant inflows so far.

The inflows into common irrigation projects of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana remained almost dismal last year and there was no let up in the situation so far this year.

Telangana had alleged that AP had made an unauthorised drawl of over 4 tmc of water from the NSP tail-pond in April without the prior consent of the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB).

The pond, which had a storage capacity of 7 tmc was meant to meet the energy needs and even drinking water needs in emergencies.

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.