hyderabad
Injustice to Telangana in the matter of Krishna waters was much more during the 10-year rule of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) than in erstwhile combined Andhra Pradesh as the water diversion capacity to the areas outside the basin in A.P. more than doubled since 2014, Minister for Irrigation N. Uttam Kumar Reddy stated in the State Assembly on Monday.
Making a powerpoint presentation on the issue of Krishna waters on two large LED screens, the Minister explained that the actual diversion of water had also gone up by over 50% since the formation of Telangana. From the diversion of 727.15 tmcft water from Srisailam by A.P. between 2004-05 and 2013-14, it had gone up to 1,201.54 tmcft between 2013-14 and 2023-24.
