Hyderabad, Jul 4 : Telangana will oppose the Pothireddypadu project, which is being illegally constructed by the Andhra Pradesh government on Krishna river.

A high-level review meeting held under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has made it clear and resolved that the Telangana state government is not recognizing Pothireddypadu project, which is being illegally constructed by the AP Government on Krishna River without any environments clearances or allocation of even a drop of water to the project or any permissions from the Green tribunal.

The high-level review meeting was held on Saturday at Pragathi Bhavan on the illegal and unlawful Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Scheme, Lifting of water in Telangana State for irrigation projects and Hydel power generation in the state.

In this meeting Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar, Principal Secretary (Irrigation) Rajat Kumar, CMO Secretary Ms Smita Sabharwal, E-in-C Muralidhar Rao, CM OSD Sridhar Rao Deshpande, Transco, Genco CMD Devulapalli Prabhakar Rao, Genco Director (Hydel) Venkatrajam,Additional Advocate General Ramachandra Rao, Irrigation department senior officials and others participated.

Among the important decisions take at the high-level meeting was that the state would oppose Pothireddypadu tooth and nail.

Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Scheme, which lifts water for Pothireddypadu Canal, is also illegal, the meeting resolved.

A release from Chief Minister’s Office late last night said though AP has enblock allocations by Bachawat Tribunal, but it should utilise water for the projects, which have allocations

The meeting has resolved that the three members Committee meeting of the KRMB scheduled on July 9 should be cancelled and a full level board meeting should be convened after July 20 including the points raised by Telangana State in the Agenda.

The meeting resolved that water to Pothireddypadu would never be allowed and instructed the officials concerned to put forth their arguments opposing the illegal Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Scheme.

It is also decided to send Telangana issues to be included in the KRMB Agenda immediately.

The meeting has summarily rejected the 66:34 ratio so far continuing on Krishna waters between AP and Telangana states.

It resolved that the ratio should be 50:50 water allocations from this year onwards. Till the Tribunal makes the final allocation, the meeting proposed that Telangana and AP State should share 811 TMC of water, 405.5 TMC each from the assured waters, the release said.(UNI)