KRMB meeting to be held in Sept, key issues to be discussed

Hyderabad: The Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) meeting is reportedly scheduled to meet in September. The meeting is reoprted to put forward key issues pertaining to sharing of Krishna River water between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and evolving a sound mechanism for the operation of powerhouses of Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar Project (NSP) for ensuring proper reservoir management.

It is believed that River Managemment Committee (RMC in KRMB meet, another crucial issue regarding the formulation of rule curves of Srisailam and NSP reservoirs might will also be discussed. It is to mention here that, a few days ago, officials from Telangana Irrigation and Command Area Development (I&CAD) had requested KRMB to furnish data for the formulation of rule curves of Srisailam and NSP reservoirs at the earliest while convening the next RMC meeting.

It is also reported that one more key issue to evolve a methodology for demarcation of surplus water over and above 75 per cent dependable flows in the Krishna basin under Telangana and AP region would also be discussed. The same issue came up for discussion during the RMC meeting conducted on August 4. Senior officials from I&CAD would be giving a detailed presentation during the meeting.