: Opinion: Uphold spirit of ISRWD Act #IndiaNEWS #News By Salla Vijaya Kumar Recently, the Centre issued an amendment to last year’s gazette notification, which notified that projects of Krishna basin

Opinion: Uphold spirit of ISRWD Act #IndiaNEWS #News
By Salla Vijaya Kumar
Recently, the Centre issued an amendment to last year’s gazette notification, which notified that projects of Krishna basin be brought under the jurisdiction of the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB). The amendment has exempted head works of surplus-water-based projects, listed in Para 10 of schedule-XI of AP Reorganisation Act (APRA), 2014, from obtaining time-bound approval of competent authorities. It facilitates large-scale diversion of Krishna water outside the basin from Srisailam reservoir while limiting Telangana from diverting inside the basin.
The projects taken up by erstwhile AP were selective from 1956 to 2014 and, as a result, only a few projects serving inside the Krishna basin in the Telangana region were taken up. The list of projects in Para-10 of Schedule-XI is not comprehensive and doesn’t include even those projects which were taken up by erstwhile AP, namely Palamuru-Rangareddy, Dindi and Srisailam Left Bank Canal.
KWDT-I on Future Projects
During adjudication, the Bachawat Tribunal (KWDT-1) considered that projects existing or committed as of September I960 should be protected and projects committed after it should be regarded as new or future projects. It stipulated that for allocation to future projects, priority should be given to inside basin diversions. It is important to know that while deciding on future projects, the KWDT-I negated demands for outside basin projects placed by erstwhile AP and allocated water to the Jurala project.
However, after the KWDT-I Award in 1976, violating its stipulation, the erstwhile AP took up six projects to divert water to outside basin Andhra areas; two projects namely, Srisailam Right Branch Canal (19 TMC in 1981) and Pulichintala project (9 TMC in 1996) were redistributed with dependable water; and four were proposed, namely Galeru Nagari, Handri Niva, Veligonda and Telugu Ganga, under surplus water. These four projects were placed in Para 10 of Schedule-XI of APRA 2014.
KWDT-I & KWDT-II
The Bachawat Tribunal allocated 811 TMC as en bloc to the erstwhile AP out of 2,130 TMC in the Krishna basin at 75% dependability. The erstwhile AP has distributed 512 TMC for projects serving Andhra areas (68% of it is diverted to outside basin) and 299 TMC for projects serving inside basin areas of Telangana. The Brijesh Kumar Tribunal (KWDT-2) forwarded its Award in 2013 to the Centre and has not yet been published due to Supreme Court stay orders.
The KWDT-2 didn’t change the KWDT-1’s 811 TMC allocation and further allocated water up to average flows which includes 150 TMC carryover storage at Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar. Hence, after the KWDT-1 & KWDT-2 awards, combined AP got 1,005 TMC of the total 2,578 TMC in the Krishna basin.

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