Telangana Government has requested the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) to restrain Andhra Pradesh from drawing Tungabhadra water through 13 lift irrigation schemes including Guru Ranghavendra lift between Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme (RDS) anicut and Sunkesula Barrage stating that all of them are unauthorised, have no approval and allocation of water.
Engineer-in-Chief (General-Irrigation) of Telangana C. Muralidhar, in a letter addressed to Chairman of KRMB M.P. Singh, explained that AP had taken up the new schemes to lift over 5.37 tmc ft water from the right bank of Tungabhadra river starting from the downstream of RDS to Sunkesula. He stated that the lift irrigation schemes were unauthorised as they were neither appraised by the river board or Central Water Commission nor approved by the Apex Council.
Further, he also asked the river board Chairman to instruct the board office to account for the utilisation of water made by AP through the 13 lift irrigation schemes during the current water year.
