TS urges KRMB to rectify unequal drawal
The Hindu
‘Enhance Left Canal drawal, reduce Right Canal drawal’
Telangana Government has requested the Krishna River Management Board to rectify the disproportionate water drawal capacity of the Nagarjunasagar Right Canal and allow increase the vent way of the Left Canal so that both the canals could draw equal quantity of 11,000 cusecs at minimum drawdown level of the reservoir.
In a letter addressed to Chairman of the KRMB M.P. Singh, Engineer-in-Chief (General-Irrigation) of Telangana C. Muralidhar has also requested the river board to permit drawal of designed capacity of water at MDDL of the reservoir (+510 feet) by allowing provision of an additional vent way at the Left Canal head regulator.
Mr. Muralidhar explained to theKrishna River Management Board Chairman that the then Hyderabad State had finalised the Lower Krishna multi-purpose at Nandikonda in 1952 with a dam across the Krishna river along with a power house on its left side and also a left bank canal. The State Planning Commission had approved the proposal and submitted to the (Union) Planning Commission for its inclusion in the first five-year plan and for release of budget for 1952-53.
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