In an attempt to increase the storage capacity of the Krishna river and make sand available, the Water Resources Department (WRD) has undertaken desilting work upstream Prakasam Barrage. A target has been set to remove 50 lakh tonnes of silt from the riverbed, sources say.
The Andhra Pradesh government accorded the administrative approval to ₹102.44 crore for undertaking desilting works on the riverbed upstream Prakasam Barrage in March 2021. The exercise, which was launched September 2021, needs to be taken up half a kilometre away from the Praksam Barrage (from 0.5 km to 13.5 km on the Krishna).
