Telangana Irrigation Minister T. Harish Rao complained to Union Minister for Water Resources Uma Bharti on Tuesday against the attitude of Andhra Pradesh in sharing Krishna river waters.
Along with Advisor to Telangana Government on irrigation R. Vidyasagar Rao, he met the Union Minister separately after the meeting on interlinking rivers in the country and submitted a memorandum to her on the riparian rights of Telangana over Krishna waters explaining how AP was preventing Telangana from utilising its lawful share of water.
A stalemate is continuing over the issue of utilisation of Krishna water available in the Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar reservoirs between the two States for the last fortnight.
The Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) has failed to strike an accord between the two States on the utilisation of over 102 tmcft live storage of water in the two reservoirs as the two States are claiming that the other State has utilised water in excess its allocation already this year.
Intervention soughtEngingeer-in-Chief (Irrigation) of AP M. Venkateswara Rao has already written to the KRMB seeking its intervention and directions to Telangana to allow utilisation of water in the Krishna delta System for last couple of wettings to the standing crop. However, Telangana is arguing that it is yet to utilise 117 tmcft of its allocated share and wants it for rabi crop under Nagarjunasagar left bank canal.
