HYDERABAD: After complaints made by Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on the lack of proper details on water utilisation, the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) on Friday constituted a committee to study the gaps between discharges and the accounts available. In accordance with the decisions taken in the Board meeting recently, the KRMB constituted the committee.
G Ananda Kumar, deputy director, KRMB will be the convenor of the committee. The other members are K Srinivas, AEE, KRMB, Ch Ramachandram, DCE, AMRSLBC project, S Vijay Kumar, DEE, ISWR, G Viswanatham, EE, SRBC, Banaganapalli and A Suri Babu, EE, CDO, Vijayawada.
The committee will study gap between the releases from Srisailam project and realisation at Nagarjuna Sagar Project (NSP) during the year 2017-18 and the reasons for the gap. The Committee will look into the gap between the discharges measured at CWC gauge stations at Huvenhedgi and Yadgir and the realisation at Jurala project during the year 2017-18 and the reasons for the gap. It will also study accounting of the 20 per cent of water utilised for domestic and municipal water supply of Hyderabad and mission Bhagiratha.