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CWC team inspects water-level at KRS

By Our Staff Correspondent

MYSORE, JUNE 9. A two-member technical team from the Central Water Commission (CWC), which visited the Krishnaraja Sagar reservoir near Mysore to apprise itself of the water-level in the dam today, will submit a report to the Centre on Saturday.

The visit follows a decision taken by the Union Government to depute a technical team to assess the availability of water and requirements for agriculture after an all-party delegation of MPs from Tamil Nadu met the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, seeking release of water from Karnataka to help farmers take up cultivation.

Besides, C.B. Vasistha, the team includes the Commissioner of Projects, Ministry of Water Resources, A.D. Bharadwaj, and is assisted by Joginder Singh, Additional Commissioner of Agriculture. C.B. Vasistha, head of the team, told presspersons here on Wednesday that the team would be visiting Mettur on Thursday, and the report would be submitted to the Ministry of Water Resources on Saturday, which would be later submitted to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh. The purpose of the visit, he said, was only to ascertain the water-levels in the reservoirs of the State and Tamil Nadu. He clarified that the team would only be visiting KRS reservoir and Mettur reservoir before drawing up the report to be submitted to the Government. The water situation at Mettur reservoir would be assessed by the team on Thursday, he added.

The Superintending Engineer, Srikanta, furnished details on the storage level, inflow and outflow, and the sluice levels. It was pointed out that the storage in the reservoir as on Wednesday was 11.50 tmcft of which the quantum of usable water was 7.01 tmcft but the live storage was only 3.03 tmcft. He clarified that the storage was used for the supply of drinking water to cities such as Bangalore and Mysore.

The Additional Commissioner of Agriculture, Union Ministry of Agriculture, Joginder Singh, said that he was not in a position to comment as no major crop was grown in the area.

The team was accompanied by the Chief Engineer of the CWC in Bangalore, Rajan Nair; the Chief Engineer of the CWC in Coimbatore, Anthony Balan; and a host of officials and experts from the departments of Water Resources and Agriculture.

The Managing Director of Cauvery Neeravari Nigam, Thimme Gowda, and the Executive Engineer of the KRS, Vijaykumar, apprised the team of the water situation in the area.

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