HYDERABAD: The state government will take a decision in a week or 10 days’ time on how to go about the Brijesh Kumar Tribunal’s order that the project-wise allocations of Krishna river water be made between AP and Telangana states.
For this purpose, the state cabinet, which met here on Friday, constituted a cabinet sub-committee. Irrigation minister T Harish Rao is its chairman and ministers Thummala Nageswara Rao, Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, G Jagadish Reddy and Jupally Krishna Rao are the members. Deputy chief minister K Srihari and State Planning Commission vice-chairman Niranajan Reddy are special invitees.
The cabinet discussed at length the tribunal’s order and its likely fallout. Government’s advisor (irrigation) R Vidyasagar Rao too attended the meeting.
“Feeling the need for an in-depth study of the tribunal’s order, the cabinet constituted a cabinet sub-committee (CSC),” deputy chief minister K Srihari told reporters later.
The CSC will give its report in ten days’ time. The tribunal gave four weeks’ to AP and TS to file their counters on its order. The first meeting of the CSC will be held at the Secretariat on Saturday.