
TS stays away form GRMB panel meet
The Hindu
AP seeks clarity on way forward
A meeting of the coordination committee of Godavari River Management Board (GRMB) convened here on Tuesday ended without making any headway on operationalisation of clauses of the gazette notifying its purview with one of the two member States, Telangana, staying away from it as informed indirectly on Monday. Apart from Chairman of the board J. Chandrashekhar Iyer, Member Secretary B.P. Pandey, other Members, Chairman and Managing Director of AP-Genco B. Sreedhar, CMD of AP-Transco N. Srikanth, Engineers-in-Chief of Water Resources Department C. Narayana Reddy and R. Satish Kumar, representative of the Ministry of Jal Shakti (MoJS) attended the meeting. On its part, Telangana has made its mind clear on Monday by addressing a letter to the GRMB Chairman to convene a full board meeting before holding the coordination committee meeting stating that there were several important issues to be discussed at the meeting for opinion and guidance of the board to go ahead with operationalisation of the purview.
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