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Maintain adequate level of water in Srisailam: AP to TS
Andhra Pradesh Irrigation Minister Devineni Umamaheswara Rao on Monday appealed to Telangana State to consider maintaining adequate levels of water in Srisailam reservoir to save standing crops in the drought-prone Rayalaseema region.
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Irrigation Minister Devineni Umamaheswara Rao on Monday appealed to Telangana State to consider maintaining adequate levels of water in Srisailam reservoir to save standing crops in the drought-prone Rayalaseema region.
Speaking at a press conference here on Monday, he said without maintaining water levels above 854 feet, it would not be possible to give water to nearly two lakh acres of standing crops under Srisailam Right Bank Canal and KC Canal Extension and to provide dirking water through Pothireddy Padu to Rayalaseema.
Citing Section 85 para 7 (e) of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, he said the said Section clearly pointed out the priorities to be given when there was a clash of interest between irrigation, power generation and drinking water.
It was as per the Act that the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) had given its order allowing power generation at Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) till November 2. It was an Act written and given by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and approved by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and imposed on AP, he said adding that yet they were violating it.
Taking exception to the language used by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao against Krishna River Management Board Chairman NKG Pandit, Devineni said a man who was occupying a high office should not use such a language. The KRMB chairman and members were expert engineers, working for the Central Water Commission (CWC) in various capacities, for the last 30 years, he said. Making such derogatory comments against such experts and that too by a man of KCR’s stature was not proper, he added.
Though Andhra Pradesh has been trying to have a cooperative and cordial atmosphere so that it would help the Telugu people of both the States would develop, TS had been continuing to adopt an approach of confrontation, he pointed out. Besides, though there was a shortage of nearly 69 tmc sq ft of water which would be needed to meet the drinking and irrigation water purposes in near future, Telangana had been adamantly going ahead with generating power at the SLBC, he said. Devineni said the fate of farmers in Nalgonda, Khammam and Krishna delta would be at stake if Telangana continued to generate power.
He also said that without responding to farmers’ suicides and shortage of power, the TRS government had been engaged in false propaganda against TDP and its chief N Chandrababu Naidu for political mileage.
