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Leaders of the YSR Congress Party staged a protestation connected Monday against what they described arsenic injustice meted retired to the Rayalaseema portion by the State authorities led by Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu.
The protestation followed caller remarks by Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, who claimed that the Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Project had been suspended by the Andhra Pradesh authorities nether unit from Telangana.
Led by erstwhile Deputy Mayor and YSRCP State younker helping office-bearer Bhumana Abhinay Reddy, the demonstrators demanded that the State authorities safeguard Rayalaseema’s h2o rights. They took beardown objection to the alleged halt to the task and sought an contiguous and unequivocal clarification from the government.
Addressing the gathering, Mr. Abhinay said immoderate stoppage of h2o amounted to a nonstop battle connected Rayalaseema’s morganatic stock of Krishna stream waters. He warned that soundlessness connected the contented would effect successful further dilution of the State’s h2o rights.
He said the Lift Irrigation Project was captious for the drought-prone Rayalaseema region, which depends connected the Krishna and Tungabhadra stream systems. Major projects specified arsenic the High Level Canal, Low Level Canal, Srisailam Right Branch Canal, Gundrevula and Byravanathippa unneurotic person a sanctioned allocation of 133.5 tmcft. However, declining flood days and dense siltation astatine the Srisailam reservoir had made upstream lifting unavoidable, helium added.
Mr. Abhinay recalled that erstwhile Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had conceptualised the Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Project to assistance up to 3 tmcft of h2o per time from the 800-ft level of the Srisailam reservoir to conscionable the irrigation and drinking h2o needs of the region.
Tirupati Mayor B.R. Sireesha Yadav and Centre for Rayalaseema Studies president Bhuman, who besides addressed the meeting, warned that the nonaccomplishment of adjacent a azygous tmcft of h2o would severely interaction irrigation and drinking h2o information successful Rayalaseema.
