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HYDERABAD
The Irrigation Department of Telangana has complained to the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) against the unauthorised projects taken up by Andhra Pradesh successful usurpation of the AP Reorganisation Act 2014 and without securing approvals and clearances from the statutory agencies. It has requested the Board to restrain AP from taking up caller projects.
In a missive addressed to the Chairman of the River Board, Engineer-in-Chief of Telangana O.V. Ramesh Babu said successful effect to the KRMB’s missive to the Ministry of Jal Shakti, Telangana had submitted a compiled connection of authorities orders issued by AP successful usurpation of the APRA 2014 according administrative sanctions for ₹47,776.5 crore works related to the utilisation of Krishna stream waters done a missive addressed successful 2021.
The works pertain to wholly caller projects and proposals aimed astatine further enhancing the scope and grade of diversions astatine Pothireddypadu Head Regulator (PRP-HR) intended for utilisation successful projects specified arsenic SRBC (Srisailam Right Bank Canal), TGP (Telugu Ganga Project), GNSS (Galeru-Nagari Sujala Sravanthi) and HNSS (Handri-Neeva Sujala Sravanthi) from Srisailam.
Further, elaborate communications were sent to the stream committee successful 2022 and 2023 intelligibly bringing retired the project-wise violations committed by AP with a petition to the stream committee to restrain AP from undertaking immoderate caller schemes oregon capableness enhancements without owed appraisal and recommendations of KRMB, support of the Apex Council, stating that specified actions by AP would person a nonstop and adverse interaction connected the morganatic h2o rights of Telangana.
Despite repeated requests and elaborate representations made by Telangana, the unauthorised constructions and capableness expansions were being carried retired by AP and nary enactment was initiated either by the KRMB oregon by the Centre. In a striking contrast, the stream committee has written to the MoJS raising objectins to the projects of Telangana, “which appears wholly untenable and misplaced”, the ENC said.
In consonance with further presumption of notation issued by the MoJS successful October 2023, which expressly supply for task circumstantial allocations by the KWDT-II Telangana has projected its demands and is seeking due allocations, the ENC said.
He explained that Telangana had already furnished replies to the issues raised by AP done its letters addressed to the stream committee successful 2021 and the projects were taken up by Telangana successful accordance with the liberty granted by KWDT-I. Telangana had taken up further online and offline storages wrong the basin, each of which were successful beingness anterior to 2014 and bash not pull provisions of the APRA 2014. In contrast, AP had consistently resorted to “clandestine diversion of waters extracurricular the basin done PRP-HR”, helium pointed out.
Additional demands planned by AP
Utilisation of and further 114.75 tmc ft for irrigating 4,67,326 acres caller ayacut successful Kurnool, Kadapa, Anantapur, Chittoor, Prakasam and Nellore districts done existing projects
Utilisation of different 176.46 tmc ft planned nether contemplated projects for irrigating 6,30,882 acres caller ayacut successful Guntur, Prakasam, Kurnool, Kadapa and Anantapur districts
Plea of Telangana
Ask AP to desist from making misleading allegations against the projects of Telangana intended to service drought-prone and backward areas wrong the Krishna Basin
Prevent AP from undertaking immoderate caller projects, expansions oregon drawals of h2o without owed appraisal, proposal and support of the stream board, Apex Council until finalisation of h2o shares by KWDT-II
Take to the announcement of MoJS the violations of AP highlighted by Telangana
