Hyderabad: The Telangana government is going to file a suit in the Supreme Court, asking the Central government to constitute a Tribunal for allocating its share in Krishna river waters.
This was disclosed by irrigation minister T. Harish Rao on Tuesday. Since the Central government has not notified Justice Brijesh Kumar about resolving the disputes and allocation of Krishna waters among the three states undivided AP, Karnataka and Maharashtra the Telangana government in principle decided to contest it in a court of law seeking justice in allocation of waters.
The Telangana government feels it is their right to seek its share in the waters citing formation of the new state.
“We have represented the Union government to constitute a separate Tribunal or entrust the job to the existing Brijesh Kumar Tribunal to re-dress our genuine grievance. We feel it is better to file a suit in the Supreme Court under the Inter-State Water Disputes Act,” Mr Harish Rao said.
He said it is likely that the Telangana government will file the suit on July 24 and a special team of officials will be going to Delhi.
He also said there was grave injustice done in the matters of allocation of waters to various projects in Telangana state ever since the AP state was formed. “This was all done due to biased thinking of Seemandhra chief ministers. Now time has come for Telangana to fight for its rights as the region has largest catchment area of Krishna river in the undivided state,” Mr Harish Rao said.
He also said that though the Centre has constituted Krishna River Management Board to oversee the distribution of waters among all the Krishna river-based projects in both the states, there is no guarantee the Telangana is will get a fair share in the total allocation as the AP Re-Organisation Act did protect all the existing allocations.
“There is no use of demanding for a fair allocation, it is our right to get a share afresh,” Mr Harish Rao said.
