Vijayawada: Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said that the government would reserve the Krishna waters at Srisailam reservoir and water would be released to the required areas.
Interacting with irrigation officials after inaugurating a farmers’ training centre here on Saturday, he said the government would regulate the released water on priority. He said that water meters would be set up in canals to monitor the water utilisation. He also said that the government is taking steps to preserve every drop of water.
The groundwater level increased due to setting up rain harvesting pits, he added.
He said that now the water reserves including groundwater could be monitored by utilising technology. He asked the irrigation officials to set up a central monitoring system to protect all the water reserves.
The government aim is to make the state drought-free by linking the canals, tanks and rivers. Already, the state government had spent Rs 14,200 crore for water resources department. All the projects are being completed and the important Krishna and Godavari linkage was also completed, he added.
The government would link Krishna and Penna Rivers for providing water to all parts of the state. He also announced free darshan at Tirumala and an award for people who take steps to preserve water.
Ministers Devineni Umamaheswara Rao, Kamineni Srinivas, P. Pulla Rao, Kollu Ravindra, MP Kesineni Srinivas, Mayor Koneru Sridhar, MLAs Jaleel Khan, Tangirala Soumya, Bode Prasad, ZP chairperson Gadde Anuradha, irrigation engineer-in-chief M. Venkateswara Rao and district collector A. Babu were among those present on the occasion.
