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TRS `no' to water for Krishna delta

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JULY 23. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has cautioned the Government against yielding to pressures for release of water from Nagarjunasagar to Krishna delta in the name of power generation.

It held that the Nagarjunasagar project was designed for supply of 132 tmcft of water each to Nalgonda and Khammam districts in Telangana and Guntur and Prakasam districts in Andhra through the Left and Right Canals respectively and there was no provision in the Bachawat award to release water to the Krishna delta. Its needs had to be met from tributaries of the Krishna beyond Nagarjunasagar

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Talking to reporters here today, M. Satyanarayana Reddy, K. Nagesh and D. Srinivas Rao, MLAs, said the previous Telugu Desam Government released water to the delta by drawing water from below the dead storage level in Nagarjunasagar to the detriment of Telangana. Protests by the TRS were met with "brute force'' at Narketpally. "We hope the present Government will not repeat that mistake."

They pointed out that Nagarjunasagar was designed as an irrigation project.

Subsequently, it was converted into a hydro-electric project with the promise that a tail pond would be built to pump water back into the reservoir after power generation. The tail pond had not been built so far.

Answering a question, they the TRS was not opposed to construction of the Pulichintla project. All it was saying that the project must not be built until the needs of farmers in drought-prone Nalgonda and Mahabubnagar districts were fulfilled.

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