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Hyderabad: Bharatiya Janata Party State chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar wrote to the Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat seeking his intervention to notify the jurisdiction of Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) to protect the legitimate interests of Telangana of its rightful share in Krishna waters. In his letter, the Karimnagar MP said that the Krishna Water Dispute Tribunal (KWDT-I) has awarded 811 tmc ft of water to be utilised by the then combined state of Andhra Pradesh. The KWDT-II (Brijesh Kumar Tribunal) has made changes in the year 2010, but the same have not been published yet as the matter is pending with the Supreme Court. Following this, the current utilisation of waters being followed is as per the KWDT-I decision.
Further, as per the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act (APRA-2014), the KRMB and Godavari River Management Board (GRMB) were set up by the Centre to operate and maintain all the projects belonging to both the States on inter-state rivers of Krishna and the Godavari respectively. However, their jurisdiction has not been notified so far, he pointed out. He said that on the bifurcation of united AP, both the States had worked out a temporary arrangement for water distribution among themselves out of the 811 tmc ft of water. But, “Telangana government led by Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had utterly failed in protecting the interests of Telangana and its people, agreeing to 299 tmc ft to be utilised by Telangana and the remaining 512 tmc ft by Andhra Pradesh.
