‘Stop AP’s unauthorised use of water’

TS says AP is using an average of 54 tmcft water for KC Canal against its net allocation of 31.9 tmcft

In the midst of efforts to operationalise the purview of the two river boards set up as per the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, the Telangana government has addressed one more letter to the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) to restrain AP from drawing Srisailam water to “unauthorised” projects/systems. The unauthorised drawal of water to Muchumarri lift irrigation scheme (for supplementing KC Canal in Kurnool district), Malyala pumping station (for Handri-Neeva lift irrigation scheme) and Escape Channel (to feed KC Canal outside Kurnool district through Nippulavagu) was nothing but illegal diversion of Krishna water to outside the basin (to Penna Basin), Telangana said in its letter to KRMB. Engineer-in-Chief (General) of Irrigation C. Muralidhar wrote to the Chairman of KRMB M.P. Singh stating that AP’s unauthorised drawal was also denying Telangana its allocated water under the Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme (RDS). Drawal of water to the three systems – Muchumarri, Malyala and Escape Channel – was also in violation of the KWDT-I (Bachawat Tribunal) Award, he pointed out.