The Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) has fixed 15 off-take points on Jurala, Srisailam, and Nagarjuna Sagar Projects on the Krishna River to monitor drawals by Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Complaints
The two States had on several occasions complained against each other about drawing excess amounts of water to the River Management Board. The Apex Council consisting of Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti and Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and his Telangana counterpart K. Chandrasekhar Rao at its first meeting decided to have telemeters, that would provide real-time data, installed. But the process of installing telemeters is time-consuming.
Meanwhile, the River Management Board decided to constitute joint teams to send data by email directly to it. Four joint teams will monitor the pumping or drawl of water by Malyala pumping station of the Handri-Neeva Srujala Sravanti Lift Irrigation Scheme, Pothireddypadu and Bankacherla complex, Srisailam Dam and Mahatma Gandhi Kalawakurthy Lift Irrigation Scheme that fall under Srisailam Project.
Under the Nagarjuna Sagar Project the drawl of water from N.S. Right and Left Canals, Alimineti Madhavara Reddy Project and Nagarjuna Sagar Dam will be monitored by two teams.
Four teams will monitor the lifting or drawl from seven off-take points of Jurala Project. They will record drawls from Jurala Dam, Jurala Right and Left Canals, Nettempadu Lift Irrigation Scheme off-take, Koilsagar Project Stage – 1, Rajiv Bhima Lift Irrigation Schemes 1 and 2.
Responsibility
The board has entrusted the responsibility to the respective Engineer-in-Chiefs to ensure the officer concerned furnish the joint statement from sites of various projects to Engineering-in-Chief of the other states and also email them to the KRMB.
