TS to get 4 p.c. more of Krishna
KRMB disagrees with AP on the inclusion of Jurala
At the end of a four-hour meeting, the Telangana state convinced the Krishna River Management Board to allot it an additional 4 percentage point share in the main storage in the Krishna river.
The board had allotted 34 per cent, or about 112 tmc ft, to Telangana state, and 218 tmc ft to Andhra Pradesh of the 330 tmc ft of Krishna waters available at Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar.
The earlier allocation quota was 30:70.
AP has insisted that the board include the Jurala project into the calculations so that it could also be shared between the two states. TS objected to it and said it would have no problem if Almatti, Tungabhadra and Narayanapur dams were also included.
Telangana state argued when Jurala is not a common project for TS and AP, it cannot be included.
The AP government told the board that Telangana state in the name of minor irrigation was diverting water from the river to various
AP TELLS board that TS state was diverting water from the river to various tanks.
Disagreeing, TS pointed out that AP was not sharing information on the of water minor irrigation.
tanks. This water needed to be quantified and accounted for.
Disagreeing with this contention, TS officials pointed out that the AP government was not sharing information with regard to its use of water for minor irrigation.
The TS government said that the telemetry system set up at Pothireddypadu head regulator was not operational and the AP government was diverting huge quantities of water to projects outside the Krishna basin.
The board said that that was not the case, and even the manual operation chart was also valid at Pothireddypadu.
At the end of a four-hour meeting, the Telangana state convinced the Krishna River Management Board to allot it an additional 4 percentage point share in the main storage in the Krishna river.
When the issue of wasting of waters under Nagarjunasagar left (Telangana state) and right (AP) canals was raised, the board agreed to appoint a subcommittee with officials from the two governments to look into the issue.
The meeting was attended by board chairman S.K. Srivatsav, member secretary A. Paramesam, Special Chief Secretary (TS irrigation) S.K. Joshi, AP water resources Sasi Bhushan Kumar, Engineers-inChief C. Muralidhar (TS), M. Venkateswara Rao (AP), Chief Engineers S. Suneel (Nagarjunasagar) and C. Narayana Reddy (Srisailam dam).
When SMr Joshi again mentioned that since Hyderabad is the common capital city for both the states, the drinking water allocation for the city should be shared by AP, Mr Bhushan Kumar retorted, albeit in a lighter vein that the matter had already been discussed and is a closed affair. And, if the common capital logic is to be applied, then TS better allocate some share in the revenues from Hyderabad to Andhra Pradesh