Settle water row through talks: engineers’ body tells Telangana, Andhra Pradesh

‘Centre should not get a chance to enforce the gazette from Oct. 14’

Telangana Retired Engineers’ Association (TREA) has suggested the two Telugu speaking States to work towards addressing the outstanding issues on river water sharing through dialogue till the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal-II (KWDT-II) award is finalised. “The conflict should be resolved with both the Chief Ministers or their representatives working out a mutually agreed framework till the matter is settled by the Brijesh Kumar Tribunal (KWDT-II) or by a new tribunal which the Telangana government has been pressing for. No opportunity should be given to the Centre to enforce the gazette from October 14,” the engineers’ body said in a letter addressed to CM K. Chandrasekhar Rao. If the matter is not settled with dialogue, the Telangana government should move the Supreme Court in time challenging the notification of July 15, president of the association G. Damodar Reddy, general secretary M. Shyam Prasad Reddy, advisors B. Anantha Ramuloo and P. Venkat Rama Rao suggested.