State urges KRMB to keep AP portion of RDS anicut in its purview

Andhra Pradesh is obstructing anicut modernisation work, alleges Telangana

Telangana government has requested the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) to keep the Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme (RDS) anicut portion falling in Andhra Pradesh territory in the board purview and complete the modernisation of the anicut at the earliest.

In a letter addressed to Chairman of the river board M.P. Singh, Engineer-in-Chief of Telangana C. Muralidhar pointed out that the RDS h ead works and related components were not proposed to be brought under the board purview, as per an interim report of a sub-committee of the board on the operationalisation of the gazette notification on the grounds that their location was outside AP and Telangana.

Mr. Muralidhar brought to the KRMB Chairman’s notice that RDS project was taken up jointly by the erstwhile Hyderabad and Madras States in June 1944 to utilise Tungabhadra water on par with supplementation to K.C. Canal. Half of the 819 metre long anicut falls geographically in AP territory (Kurnool district) and the other half in Karnataka (Raichur district).