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Rayalaseema Bagundedi Sadhana Samithi president Bojja Dasaratha Rami Reddy connected Tuesday (March 17, 2026) urged authorities to conserve h2o successful the Srisailam Dam and guarantee contiguous merchandise to the KC Canal ayacut to safeguard irrigation and drinking h2o needs successful Rayalaseema.
Submitting a practice to territory Collector Rajakumari connected Tuesday, Mr. Reddy, on with Samithi leaders, highlighted concerns implicit h2o absorption and the request to support determination h2o rights. He emphasised that decisions connected h2o merchandise indispensable align with existing Government Orders, the Bachawat Tribunal provisions, and the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act.
The delegation pointed retired that farmers had already taken up extended rabi cultivation earlier the Irrigation Advisory Board meeting. In this context, they appealed for the contiguous merchandise of h2o to the KC Canal done the Muchumarri and Malyala assistance irrigation schemes to forestall harvest loss.
They besides projected supplying drinking h2o up to Nandyal via the Alaganur canal on the Kundu stream basin. Stressing the value of conservation, the leaders urged that h2o levels successful the Srisailam reservoir should not autumn beneath 854 feet and called for a halt to powerfulness procreation to sphere reserves.
Citing the anticipation of drought adjacent year, they pressed for prioritising drinking and irrigation needs. The Collector assured that the concerns would beryllium conveyed to the authorities and that steps would beryllium taken regarding h2o release, according to a property release.
