Farmers want KRMB office established in Kurnool

Farmers from all over the district joined the Rayalaseema Saguneeti Sadhana Samiti protest in Nandyal town on Saturday demanding the establishment of Krishna River Management Board office(KRMB) at Kurnool and held a dharna in front of the Gandhi statue in the town. Samithi president Bojja Dasharatharami Reddy along with other farmer leaders condemned the efforts of the government to set up the office in Visakhapatnam. Mr. Reddy said that in the last KRM meeting in December, the government, which had earlier sought establishment of the office in Vijayawada (Amaravati) had made a fresh request to shift it to Visakhapatnam, an area that is not even remotely connected to Krishna river basin or the farmers depending on it for irrigation water.