KTR gives Congress government a September 14 water test
The BRS leader has set a deadline for a Nagarjuna Sagar Left Canal release schedule and threatened a farmers’ march. The reservoir and canal figures behind the political claims remain unverified.
The Nagarjuna Sagar Left Canal release schedule is due by September 14, according to the political deadline.
BRS working president K T Rama Rao has given the Congress government in Telangana until September 14 to publish a schedule for releasing irrigation water into the Nagarjuna Sagar Left Canal. Speaking at a BRS-organised farmers’ maha dharna in Miryalaguda on September 3, he said he would lead a farmers’ padayatra between Kodad and Haliya if the deadline was missed. The exact direction and date of the proposed march remain unclear in the available reports.
The Left Canal, identified by the Telangana Irrigation Department as the Lal Bahadur Canal, has a documented design discharge of 11,000 cusecs. The Krishna River Management Board records its allocation at 132 TMC, including 32.25 TMC for the Andhra region, and says water is normally released for wet crops from August to December. Those are project facts, not proof of the present release position.
KTR’s claims that about 180 TMC was available, that farmers were receiving no water, and that water was being diverted to Andhra Pradesh have not been independently established in the material reviewed. The Congress government has not publicly answered those claims in the available record. It now has until September 14 to produce a schedule—or leave the irrigation calendar to political deadlines.