Telangana Government has requested the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) to restrain Andhra Pradesh from expanding the Telugu Ganga Project (TGP) by taking up a lift irrigation scheme by drawing water from Sri Pothuluri Veera Brahmendraswamy (SPVBR) Left Canal, a component of TGP.
In a letter addressed to Chairman of the river board M.P. Singh, Telangana’s Engineer-in-Chief (General-Irrigation) stated that AP Government had issued a notification calling for tenders for executing a lift irrigation scheme to lift 292 mcft or 0.292 tmc ft water a day from SPVBR Left Canal. The letter was addressed by Chief Engineer (ISWR) V. Mohan Kumar on behalf of the ENC.
The plan was to make lifting arrangements at 20.500 km, 24.900 km and 32 km length of the canal to fill Itugulapadu, Savisettipalli, Kondrajupalli, Varikuntla and Ganganapalli in Kasinayana mandal of Kadapa district. The Telangana ENC pointed out that taking up new outside-basin-surplus-based projects’ components/expansions (TGP) utilising Krishna water was in clear violation of the AP Reorganisation Act provisions.
