hyderabad
Telangana has requested the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) to restrain Andhra Pradesh from proceeding ahead with the first phase of works on the Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Project (RLIP), stating that the AP government has issued orders recently to resume works to divert 59 tmc ft water in June-July by installing six pumps with 2,913 cusecs each.
Engineer-in-chief (General-Irrigation) of Telangana C. Muralidhar said in a letter addressed to KRMB chairman Shiv Nandan Kumar that the AP government has cleared the proposals to resume first-phase works on the project although there was stay on RLIP works imposed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) Southern Zone Bench.
