The Welfare Association of Water Users and Ayacutdars of Andhra Pradesh wrote a letter to Union Minister for Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawath, requesting him to take steps to shift the headquarters of the Krishna River Water Management Board (KRMB) to Vijayawada, instead of Visakhapatnam.
In the letter dated October 19, association president Alla Gopala Krishna and others said that it was learnt that the State government informed the KRMB Chairman that 10,000 sq. ft. office space is provided for KRMB in Visakhapatnam, and requested that the KRMB office be shifted from Hyderabad to Visakhapatnam at an early date.
Since inception of the KRMB, several representations had been submitted by the farmers’ welfare organisation that it should be located in Vijayawada on the banks of the Krishna river, which was also geographically centrally located in Andhra Pradesh.
