Jurala fills; orders, not water, missing
Krishna inflows reached Jurala and lifts to Nettempadu, Bhima and Koilsagar have begun. Farmers want canal releases; field officials say they’re waiting for higher-ups. Meanwhile, the flow heads to Srisailam — and the BJP-run Centre and the Congress in Telangana can both explain later why “later” is always the season here.
Jurala is filling, but canal-release orders are still pending.
Jurala has been taking Krishna floodwater and pushing some of it into Telangana’s lifts while the bulk moves downstream toward Srisailam. According to a local report, lifting to Nettempadu, Bhima and Koilsagar started on Monday around 3 p.m., with a combined release first at about 1,000 cusecs and later near 2,300 cusecs split as 750 cusecs (Nettempadu), 1,000 (Bhima) and 350 (Koilsagar). The same report said Jurala held roughly 8 TMC against a 9 TMC FRL, with additional water sent for power generation and downstream flow. It also noted no releases yet into Jurala’s right and left canals, Bhima Phase-II or the RDS link. These numbers are the report’s; the department has not published a bulletin alongside them for readers to check.
On the ground, one department engineer said the quiet part out loud: they won’t clarify irrigation releases without orders from higher officials. Farmers in the former Mahbubnagar region have been asking for a schedule; what they have is a queue for approvals.
Downstream, a water-resources chief engineer in Kurnool said the Jurala flow is likely to reach Srisailam within two days. At 9 a.m. on July 28, Srisailam was taking in around 27,210 cusecs, stated as coming from Jurala’s power house. That confirms movement, not priority — whether Telangana’s canals get their share now or “after the file moves” is still a political choice, not a hydrological fate.
Two facts are clear and they sit badly together: inflow arrived, and field officials say they’re still waiting for orders. The Congress government in Telangana owes farmers a release plan with times and volumes, not a seminar on procedures. The BJP-led Centre can spare us the federal-umpire act too; timely irrigation in Telangana is not an interstate scandal to be resolved after kharif. Telangana’s ayacut can’t plant on a promise; it needs a valve turned and a date on paper.