Vijayawada: The fate of Pulichintala project seems bleak as AP government wants to divert the Krishna waters totally to Rayalaseema while Telangana government planned to construct two new projects on Krishna River.
Nearly Rs2,000 crore was spent on Pulichitnala project by treating it as most useful for Krishna delta but now it may turn only an ideal project without any use.
Nearly 45 TMC feet storage capacity is in the project but it may remain an empty water project.
Now the experts of Krishna delta irrigation requested to make alternative plans to use the irrigation project for water storage purpose. Once the farming community of Krishna delta fought for the project. But though the project was made reality it did not get water for at least 50 per cent of its full storage.
The dipping water reserves in Krishna River turned a challenge to the state government and finally the project too could not receive reasonable water levels from the time it was dedicated to the public by the then CM N. Kiran Kumar Reddy.
AP Rytanga Samakya president Erneni Nagendra Nath said that the government should take steps to pump water to Pulichintala project from Pattiseema through the Krishna River. He said that the Telangana government is following the same practice on Krishna and Godavari rivers.
He said that the illegal projects of Telangana government would totally damage the interests of Andhra farming community. AP Delta Parirakshana Samiti president Kolanukonda Sivaji said that the AP government should stop the illegal projects of the Telangana government.
AP would face severe water crisis due to the Telangana irrigation projects.
