TheTelanganagovernment on Monday asked theKrishna River Management Board(KRMB) to retainRajolibanda Diversion Schemeon Tungabhadra underKRMBs jurisdiction by incorporating the project under schedule-2 and complete modernisation of canalanicutat the earliest.
The RDS project was taken by the erstwhile Hyderabad state in terms of June, 1944 agreement between Hyderabad and Madras state to utilize Tungabhadra waters on par with KC canal. The length of the anicut is 819 mtrs and geographically half of the anicut is in AP and half of the anicut in Raichur of Karnataka. The project irrigates 5,879 acres in Karnataka and 87,500 acres in with an allocation of 17. 10 tmcft by KWDT-1,
Major portion of canal modernisation was completed but modernisation of anicut is being obstructed by AP government in the name of law and order problem. The Communication was sent by AP to Karnataka officials not to proceed with the works, which is unwarranted.