KRMB faults AP for not facilitating visit to RLIS site for 4 months

Board writes to Andhra Pradesh to stop any work on the project till getting approval

The Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) has faulted the Andhra Pradesh government for not facilitating the visit of a team constituted by it on the directions of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to the Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Scheme (RLIS) site even four months after the formal request and several reminders till date. “The visit of the river board team is mandatory as part of implementing the order of NGT given on February 24 this year in an interlocutory application filed on violation of the green tribunal’s earlier order dated October 29, 2020. It’s necessary to ascertain whether or not there are any violations of NGT directions as being pointed out by Telangana repeatedly,” a senior official of the river board told The Hindu. In a letter addressed to the Secretary of Water Resources Department of AP a couple of days back, member of the river board H.K. Meena has drawn Andhra Pradesh’s attention to a recent letter written to it by Telangana in the matter and attached a copy of it along with a few pictures on the work reportedly being done at the RLIS site on the foreshores of Srisailam reservoir in Kurnool district.