BSY to meet Maharashtra Water Resources Minister today
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Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa is scheduled to meet Maharashtra Water Resources Minister Jayant Patil in Bengaluru on Saturday, to talk about methods to scale back flood injury within the Krishna basin villages.
To put together for this, a gathering of senior officers was held in Bengaluru on Friday.
Rakesh Singh, Additional Chief Secretary, Irrigation, and others mentioned varied points confronted by the Krishna basin districts like Belagavi, Bagalkot, Vijayapura, Kalaburagi, Yadgir, and Bidar.
Mr. Singh spoke to M.G. Hiremath, Deputy Commissioner, Belagavi, and requested him to be prepared to take over the administration of reservoirs in case of floods. It is believed that Maharashtra releasing water instantly and releasing extra water than anticipated has led to floods within the Krishna and its tributaries in north Karnataka.
Saturday’s assembly is anticipated to deal with a number of of those points.
One of the options that’s doubtless to come up is the lengthy pending `water for water’ settlement anticipated to be signed between Maharashtra and Karnataka.
Maharashtra demand
Maharashtra has been demanding that Karnataka allot 4 tmcft of water in alternate for water to be launched into the Krishna in the summertime months. All these years, Karnataka has been paying for the water launched from Maharahstra.
Maharashtra has sought laying of a 20-km pipleline to Jat from the Tubachi-Babaleshwar elevate irrigation scheme in Vijayapura district.
Karnataka engineers had instructed Ramesh Jarkiholi, former Irrigation Minister, to insist on a month-to-month quota and basin-wise allocation of the 4 tmcft of water.
They had additionally warned towards Maharashtra counting monsoon releases as a part of the agreed quantum of water.
“We have been insisting on differentiating voluntary release of water from reservoirs and automatic release due to natural causes or to avoid floods,” stated a senior engineer from the Irrigation Department.
He stated Mr. Yediyurappa is probably going to stick to this level in Saturday’s assembly.
Belagavi-based Central committee for Kannada organisations has submitted a memorandum to the CM asking him to safeguard the curiosity of the state in any respect prices.
Mr. Patil left for Bengaluru from his hometown of Kolhapur on Friday night. He was earlier scheduled to board a flight from Belagavi. Karnataka irrigation officers had been ready for him in Sambra airport. The Minister’s plans had been modified on the final minute, an officer stated.
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