AP wants Telangana 30 TMC? Prove it
BRS says Andhra asked KRMB to cap Telangana at 30 tmcft and claims Telangana’s Congress government nodded along. The letters aren’t public. The reservoirs are.
The 30-tmcft claim remains a matter of paperwork, not a published KRMB record.
BRS leader V. Srinivas Goud on Thursday alleged that Andhra Pradesh’s Engineer‑in‑Chief wrote to the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) seeking to allot only 30 tmcft to Telangana, and that Telangana’s own Engineer‑in‑Chief echoed a line about the state “lacking reservoirs”. He named Narlapur, Edula, Vattem, Uddandapur and Karivena and asked what, then, those were. These are political claims; neither letter was published, and KRMB has not put such correspondence on record.
KRMB’s own mandate is to regulate supplies from notified projects to both states in line with tribunal awards and agreements; it does not vest an Engineer‑in‑Chief with authority to decide another state’s share. Its latest annual report records the live dispute: Telangana cites 299 TMC versus 512 TMC for Andhra Pradesh; Andhra presses 279 TMC for Telangana, with 20 TMC linked to Bhima modernisation. A one‑off 30 tmcft ask, if it exists, would be a move inside that fight, not a permanent rewrite.
On reservoirs, Palamuru‑Rangareddy’s five named reservoirs exist in project literature and reporting, with combined designed storage in the ~65–68 TMC range depending on the phase. Whether they were fully operational at the time of any KRMB exchange isn’t established in the material available.
Goud also accused Andhra of diverting Krishna water towards the Penna basin via Pothireddypadu; he did not table flow records. He further claimed Andhra “draws 146 tmcft” while asking 30 for Telangana, and said “100 per cent” of the Krishna basin lies in Telangana. KRMB’s own description says the basin spans Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The figures and the letters need documents, not podiums.
What would actually help: the AP and Telangana ENC letters with dates and file numbers, the KRMB agenda or minutes where any 30 tmcft request was tabled, and the accounting basis for the 146 tmcft line. Until then, the Congress government in Telangana has a simple job it has so far ducked: put the paperwork out or stop shadow‑boxing for Andhra.