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HYDERABAD
The erstwhile 10-year regularisation of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) authorities had done much injustice to Telangana than immoderate different authorities earlier it successful the substance of stream h2o utilisation and the Congress Government is committed to undo the wrongdoings of the former, Irrigation and Civil Supplies Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy told the Assembly connected Saturday.
Making a presumption for implicit 90 minutes connected the utilisation of h2o successful the Krishna Basin much truthful successful combined Mahabubnagar district, the Minister said that the erstwhile authorities had wilfully neglected the Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS) during 2014-23, portion its absorption was chiefly connected Kaleshwaram task to "milk much commissions”. The erstwhile authorities had spent astir ₹1.83 lakh crore connected irrigation but had failed to make immoderate irrigation imaginable worthy a mention.
Mr. Reddy assured the House that the Congress Government is committed to completing PRLIS with 90 tmc ft of h2o utilisation and different pending projects successful the Krishna Basin, specified arsenic Koilsagar, Bhima, Nettempadu, Kalwakurthy, Narayanpet-Kodangal, Srisailam Left Bank Canal, and Dindi, implicit the adjacent 3 years. He pointed retired that the biggest blunder committed by the erstwhile authorities successful the substance of PRLIS was the alteration of root from Jurala to Srisailam.
He explained that a flood h2o survey done by the erstwhile authorities had revealed that implicit one-lakh cusecs flood passes Jurala for 27-28 days a twelvemonth connected an mean and it would person been much than capable to assistance 90 tmc ft h2o during those flood days itself. Drawal of h2o from Jurala could person irrigated 10 lakh acres with 3 stages of lifting against 5 with Srisailam arsenic the source.
Further, helium explained that diversion of h2o from Srisailam by Andhra Pradesh was overmuch higher astatine 1,190.6 tmc ft during the 10-year regularisation of BRS against 730.6 tmc ft during 10 years anterior to enactment of Telangana. The h2o drawal capableness of AP from Srisaialm had accrued from 4.47 tmc ft a time till 2014 and it had gone up to 13.17 tmc ft during 2014-23. Similarly, utilisation of Krishna h2o by Telangana was highest (286.3 tmc ft) successful 2024-25 since enactment of Telangana successful 2014-15.
A walk of ₹7,469 crore connected the ongoing projects specified arsenic Kalwakurthy, Bhima, Nettempadu and Koilsagar by the erstwhile authorities would person created an further irrigation imaginable of 8.65 lakh acres, but not so, Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy said. Blaming the erstwhile authorities for mortgaging the State’s interests by agreeing to 299 tmc ft successful Krishna waters till completion of the adjudication of shares of AP and Telangana by the Brijesh Kumar Tribunal, helium said the Congress Government was arguing for a stock of 763 tmc ft retired of 1,050 tmc ft allocated to combined AP.
