Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh government has agreed to depute 75 officers in the rank of divisional executive engineer and assistant engineer from the water resources department and APGenco to the.
Centre takes over TS, AP projects in midnight move Updated Jul 17, 2021, 6:49 am IST The boards were given powers to perform all the functions to regulate the supply of water and power generated from the projects Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao. (Photo: Twitter@TelanganaCMO) Hyderabad: A ‘midnight gazette notification’ issued by the Centre late on Thursday night, taking control of all major and medium irrigation projects on the Krishna and the Godavari rivers from October 14 came as a rude shock to the Telangana state government. The sudden development came in the wake of the row over sharing of the Krishna waters between Telangana state and Andhra Pradesh, and both states lodging a series of complaints with the Centre against each other over the Rayalaseema lift irrigation scheme and enhancement of the capacity of the Pothireddypadu project by the AP government and hydel power generation on the Krishna river projects by the Telangana government.