The Kusumanchi police have stepped up vigil along the Nagarjunasagar Project (NSP) left canal in the mandal to prevent illegal tapping of water from the canal. The police teams embarked on patrolling in the vulnerable areas along the stretch of the left canal to check pilferage of the flow. Water was released from the NSP in Nalgonda district into the left canal system five days ago to replenish the Palair balancing reservoir.
Sources said that the water level in the Palair reservoir stood around 12 feet against its full reservoir level of 23 feet on Friday