Uttam lists out particulars of water withdrawal throughout BRS regime

Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy addressing a press convention together with Ministers Komatireddy Venkatreddy and Ponnam Prabhakar in Hyderabad on Thursday.

Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy hit again on the BRS leaders by revealing statistics stating that Telangana’s pursuits have been compromised by BRS chief and former CM Okay. Chandrasekhar Rao as he turned a blind eye in direction of unlawful water drawing by Andhra Pradesh.

Regardless of the legal negligence of the BRS authorities within the final 10 years, the BRS is now making an attempt to defame the Congress authorities, he mentioned, addressing a press convention together with Ministers Komatireddy Venkatreddy and Ponnam Prabhakar.

The Minister mentioned that the Krishna River Administration Board (KRMB) information exhibits that from 2014-15 to 2020-21, Andhra Pradesh constantly utilised over 64% of Krishna River water whereas Telangana’s share remained under 36%. In 2014-15, A.P. used 529.33 TMC whereas Telangana received solely 227.74 TMC (30.08%).

By 2020-21, A.P. had additional elevated its utilization to 629.07 TMC, leaving Telangana with simply 248.23 TMC. “The BRS authorities did not take robust authorized or political motion, permitting Andhra Pradesh to proceed its extra withdrawals,” he charged.

Mr. Reddy mentioned that since 2014, Andhra Pradesh aggressively expanded its water withdrawal capability from Srisailam, growing the Pothireddypadu Head Regulator’s capability from 44,000 cusecs in 2005 to 92,600 cusecs in 2023.

He accused the BRS authorities of enabling Andhra Pradesh to drift tenders for the Rayalaseema Raise Irrigation Scheme (RLIS) by suspending the Apex Council assembly. “The RLIS mission was accredited simply days after a secret settlement between KCR and the then A.P. CM Jagan Mohan Reddy,” he alleged. “Regardless of these blatant violations, the then BRS authorities remained passive. They didn’t instantly method the Supreme Courtroom or KWDT-II to contest AP’s unlawful water drawal.’”

The Congress authorities is now contesting the unfair Krishna river water allocation of 299 TMC to Telangana and 512 TMC to Andhra Pradesh. Studying from minutes of the Krishna River Administration Board (KRMB) conferences, Mr. Reddy claimed the BRS authorities agreed at hand over key initiatives to KRMB, even allocating ₹200 crore for upkeep within the 2023-24 price range.

“Not like BRS, our authorities won’t ever hand over our initiatives to KRMB,” he asserted.

Mr. Reddy mentioned to watch AP’s water withdrawals, the Congress authorities has requested the Centre to put in telemetry devices at 35 areas in Nagarjunasagar and Srisailam dams.

“Even when the Centre refuses to fund it, Telangana will set up the devices at its personal price,” he declared.