6 months ago
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HYDERABAD
The Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) has requested the subordinate State Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to merchandise funds against the approved fund of ₹23.32 crore for 2025-26 and 2024-25 since it has been facing acute fiscal situation adjacent successful gathering the wage expenditure of the committee secretariat.
In a missive addressed jointly to the Engineers-in-Chief (Irrigation/Water Resources) of the 2 States, the stream committee has pointed retired that neither of the 2 States person released immoderate funds for the past 3 quarters (April to December 2025). As a result, unit salaries were being paid by impermanent diversion of disposable funds of ₹4.15 crore of Telangana meant for the installation of second-phase telemetry equipment.
The phase-one telemetry is nether yearly attraction declaration till March 31, 2027 but adjacent the magnitude of ₹23.3 lakh required for the existent fiscal twelvemonth attraction works was besides yet to beryllium provided by the subordinate States. Of the 18 radar sensors installed successful the first-phase, lone 7 were recovered to beryllium moving satisfactorily but the remaining 11 successful the assistance irrigation schemes needed replacement of SLDCP (Side Load Doppler Current Profiler) and relocation.
For the second-phase, 14 locations were agreed for by the subordinate States and further 15 locations were projected by the stream board. Another 22 locations were besides projected by Telangana. It was decided successful the phases that each the telemetry stations of phase-one and phase-two whitethorn beryllium commissioned and the information collected beryllium utilized for h2o accounting simultaneously by July 2019 itself.
However, the hold successful commissioning the telemetry astatine each locations agreed successful phase-two was yet to beryllium completed arsenic the six locations of assistance irrigation schemes were dropped and further 4 SLDCPs were projected successful spot of primitively agreed five, the information from phase-one excessively could not beryllium enactment successful usage truthful far.
It has besides pointed retired that its existent presumption connected h2o regularisation lone has the secretariat relation reduced to post-factor h2o usage regularisation successful the lack of handing implicit of projects arsenic specified successful the AP Reorganisation Act and deficiency of project-wise h2o allocation.
In the substance of phase-three telemetry, the committee wrote that if the States chose to proceed they were required to person implicit spot successful the ultrasonic exertion ACDP (Acoustic DCP)/SLDCP for canal discharges.
