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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.

In the next few weeks, the water board will also make arrangements to supply drinking water through submersible pumps.

Taking into consideration the drinking water needs of both the States, the Board allotted 5.5 tmc of water to Andhra Pradesh while Telangana was allowed to meet its requirements from the balance available in project.

The storage levels in Nagarjuna Sagar in Krishna basin and Sripada Yellampalli in Godavari basin are under close observation as the two projects play a crucial role in supporting the water supply system for a major part of the State as well as the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad.

Citing the hardships being faced by farmers across the State due to lack of irrigation water and quality power supply, the BRS president said it was much more than a natural calamity, and was a man-made and government-made calamity.

The Water Board is currently drawing water from Manjeera, Singur, Nagarjuna Sagar, and Yellampally along with the twin reservoirs.

Officials suspect that due to scorching heat, monkeys may have entered the tank through the metal sheets for water but could not come out and drowned.

Demanding a compensation of Rs.25,000 per acre to the farmers, KCR, who visited and interacted with farmers in Jangaon, Suryapet and Nalgonda districts, said 200 farmers had lost their lives in just about 100 days of the Congress in power.

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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

KTR said due to the pressure created on the Congress government following the 'Chalo Nalgonda' meeting organised by the BRS in Nalgonda on Tuesday to protest against handing over the Krishna river projects to the Centre

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.

The State government during the last two KRMB meetings held on January 17 and 28 had agreed to hand over components of Nagarjuna Sagar, Srisailam and Peddavagu, he said in the Assembly here on Friday.

Appealing to the party workers to gear up for a new phase of agitation, he made it clear that there would not be any compromise on riparian rights of Telangana that were hard earned.