It was decided to release 15 tmcft from Srisailam to Nagarjuna Sagar. | Photo Credit: Ramesh Susarlamore-inThe three-member committee of the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) allocated 9 tmcft to Andhra Pradesh and 24 tmcft to Telangana at its meeting in Hyderabad on Friday. The Andhra Pradesh Engineer-in-Chief also argued that the transmission losses in Telangana should not be passed to Andhra Pradesh. The KRMB member-secretary said the dispute would be referred again to the joint experts committee on transmission losses. It was also decided that 15 tmcft would be released from Srisailam to Nagarjuna Sagar as compensation for the 33 tmcft that was going to be released from Nagarjuna Sagar.

Source: The Hindu March 02, 2018 19:41 UTC