TS wants GRMB to postpone Aug. 9 meet

State has two important cases slated in NGT, SC that day

Uncertainty shrouds the possibility of the emergency meeting of the Godavari River Management Board (GRMB) as Telangana, one of the two member States, has expressed its inability to attend the meeting scheduled for August 9 by the board, as communicated to the two States on Wednesday. Telangana has informed the river board on Thursday, through a letter, that it has two important cases coming up in the Southern Zone Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) and the Supreme Court on August 9. It has a contempt case against Andhra Pradesh in NGT for alleged works on Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Scheme (RLIS) in violation of the Tribunal’s earlier orders. On the other hand, Telangana also has its petition – on withdrawing its writ petition in the matter of Krishna river water sharing to allow Centre refer the matter of adjudicating the share of water among Telangana and AP to a new tribunal under Section 3 of the Intet State River Water Disputes Act, 1956, or to the existing Krishna Water Dispute Tribunal (KWDT-II) headed by Justice Brijesh Kumar – coming up in the Supreme Court on that day.