Telangana urges KRMB to stop AP’s GNSS expansion works

Project being taken up without river board approval, says TS

Telangana government has addressed one more letter to the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB), this time requesting the river board to restrain Andhra Pradesh from executing works pertaining to the Galeru-Nagari Sujala Sravanthi (GNSS) lift irrigation project with enhanced scope of the surplus water-based project.

“Any expansion work of an irrigation project or a new scheme taken up after June 2, 2014 attracts the provisions of Section 85 (8) of the AP Reorganisation Act,” Engineer-in-Chief (General-Irrigation) of Telangana C. Muralidhar said in a letter written to Chairman of KRMB M.P. Singh. He requested the river board Chairman to stop A.P. from proceeding with the expansion works of the project and also take the matter to the notice of the Jal Shakti Ministry.

The Telangana ENC stated that the A.P. government had given approval to the work of improvement, widening and lining to the GNSS main canal from 0 to 56 km to increase the discharge capacity with ₹305.7 crore and also taking up construction of a new lift based on GNSS main canal with ₹56.83 crore.