The Andhra Pradesh government has asked the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal (KWDT) to make project-wise allocation of 512 tmcft to Andhra Pradesh and 299 tmcft to Telangana and also evolve an operational protocol as conceived in Section 89(b) of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014.
Counsel for Andhra Pradesh, G. Prabhakar, on Thursday filed a counter to the statement of case filed by Telangana before the KWDT in New Delhi.
Telangana plea
The counter statement, finalised by Advocate General D. Srinivas and senior advocate A.K. Ganguli, said the plea of Telangana state for making equitable apportionment at various dependabilities of water in the river was “wholly untenable”. Restricting out-basin allocation and other changes in allocation were contrary to the decisions of KWDT-I and KWDT-II and were, therefore, liable to be rejected.
The other pleas made by Telangana were not in consonance with the terms of reference to the Tribunal and were therefore liable to be rejected, counsel pleaded. Counsel argued that the assertion made by Telangana that it had evolved a strategy to tap 75% of monsoon rainfall in a span of 60 days, was wholly improper and illegal.
