The Nagarjuna Sagar Left Canal (NSLC) Project Committee, Krishna district, has appealed to the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) to continue to release water at the head regulator to ensure supply at the rate of 1,500 cusecs at A.P. border, i.e., 21st main branch canal, for another 15 days for protecting standing crops in Zone III.
In a letter to the KRMB Chairman on Thursday, committee chairman Y. Pullaiah Chowdary, NSLC Vissannapet distributory committee chairman N. Chenna Kesava Rao, and Water Resources Department apex committee member A.V. Gopalakrishna stated that the KRMB had directed Telangana to supply water at the A.P. border in two spells, and that the losses could be accounted for subsequently.
As per the KRMB’s order, 3.78 tmcft was released in the first spell and 0.64 tmcft in the second.
Not a single drop of water was released after that for Zone III.
Drinking water problem
As a consequence, crops were withering and drinking water problem has arisen amidst reports that the NSP left canal is proposed to be closed from January 6.
The committee also requested the KRMB to consider the following aspect: lifting of 500 cusecs by Telangana through the Bhakta Ramadas lift irrigation scheme from the Paleru reservoir, allegedly without the notice of either the KRMB or the Central Water Commission, and showing the same as a loss and closing the head regulator after the requirement of ayacut in Telangana is met.
