Hyderabad: Amid the raging row over sharing of Krishna river water, the Telangana government has demanded that the Krishna River Water Management Board (KRMB) cancels its three-member committee meeting scheduled on July 9. Instead, it should convene a full-fledged board meeting after July 20 or later, including the points raised by Telangana in its agenda.



Telangana made it clear that it would not recognize the Pothireddypadu project, which is being illegally constructed by the Andhra Pradesh government on the Krishna river without any environmental clearances or allocation of water to the project or any permission from the Green Tribunal. The decision was taken at a high-level review meeting chaired by Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on late Saturday. The meeting resolved that Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Scheme, which lifts water for Pothireddypadu Canal, is also illegal.

 

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The meeting summarily rejected the 66:34 ratio so far continuing on Krishna waters between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. It said the ratio should be 50:50 water allocation from this year onwards. Till the Tribunal makes the final allocation, the meeting proposed that Telangana and Andhra Pradesh should share 811 TMC of water, 405.5 TMC each from the assured waters.

Ignoring the objections by Andhra Pradesh, the meeting also decided that power generation would continue at Jurala, Pulichintala, Srisailam, and Nagarjuna Sagar. It declared that KRMB has no right to stop power generation. It said there are no agreements between the two states on hydel power generation.


Meanwhile, both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana deployed huge police forces at the Pulichintala project, which demarcates the border between both states. The police of both states have been guarding the Nagarjuna Sagar and Pulichintala projects which are built on the Krishna river and are located on the borders of both the states.

 

(With inputs from IANS)