BRS blames Congress govt. for allowing A.P. to draw huge water from Srisailam
Ex-minister S. Niranjan Reddy says AP taking away water to outside basin areas at the cost of basin areas of Telangana
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) party has criticized the current Congress government in Andhra Pradesh for allowing the state to extract a significant amount of water from the Srisailam reservoir. This criticism comes as the BRS claims that the Congress-led government is destroying farmers' hopes for a successful crop season under the pretext of El Nino conditions.
During a press conference, former Minister S. Niranjan Reddy demanded that the government operate the pumps of Kalwakurthy and Palamuru-Rangareddy lifts, as well as those on the Jurala project, to ensure at least one assured crop this year. Reddy stated that Jurala would receive up to 5,000 cubic feet per second of regenerated water from the Almatti and Narayanpur projects in Karnataka, even in the absence of water release there.
He alleged that the Andhra Pradesh government had been diverting vast quantities of water from Srisailam once its level reached 854 feet (now at 875.8 feet). Reddy reminded that the Srisailam project was originally constructed for hydro-electric generation and later, for drinking water purposes and irrigation for 2 lakh acres in the region, the Andhra Pradesh government constructed the Pothireddypadu Head Regulator and expanded its capacity several times to divert substantial amounts of water from the Krishna basin to areas outside the basin, depriving the in-basin areas in Telangana.
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