The Rayalaseema Joint Action Committee (JAC) on irrigation water, during a roundtable on Wednesday, decided to organise a ‘Jala Deeksha’ at Siddeswaram in Nandyal district on May 31 to press for the demand for getting the allocated Krishna water to irrigate 19 lakh acres in the region.
To realise this, the implementation the Siddeswaram weir project proposed on the Krishna river was essential, the roundtable opined.
The JAC led by Rayalaseema Saguneeti Sadhana Samithi also threatened to stop the proposed bridge on the Krishna to connect Hyderabad with Chennai through NH-167-A.
