The witness appearing for Telangana before the Brijesh Kumar Tribunal, Chetan Pandit, has brought to the notice of the Tribunal that that an acute geographical imbalance in utilisation of water was an important reason for seeking a separate Telangana State and the reason behind seeking judicious share to it.
During his cross-examination by senior advocate appearing for Andhra Pradesh R. Venkataramani, for the second day on Thursday, Mr. Pandit said in his attempt to suggest an operational protocol for deficit years he was addressing a scenario which has not been experienced earlier, wherein a very large part of water resource (almost 40%), allocation of Krishna water to combined Andhra Pradesh, is already diverted outside the basin and now the combined AP is divided in two parts.
He explained that he was working a way out to at least partially address the imbalance by suggesting a lower priority to only a part outside the basin use. He reiterated that he does not agree to diversion of water outside the basin when the donor basin itself has water scarcity.
