The ongoing row between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh on sharing of electricity and water today reached the doors of common Governor ESL Narasimhan, with both the state governments meeting him over the issue.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao called on the Governor at Raj Bhavan in the evening. Though there was no official word on the meeting, he is understood to have discussed the ongoing controversy over sharing of electricity from the Srisailam generation station, official sources in Telangana government said.
Alleging that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is denying the rightful share in electricity to Telangana and not honouring provisions of the AP Reorganisation Act, the Telangana Chief Minister had earlier sought the Centre's intervention and also said that his government would move Supreme Court.
The current dispute between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana is about power generation at Srisailam (project). Andhra Pradesh wants Telangana to stop power generation at the Srisailam project as continued power generation would lead to water scarcity in Andhra in future. However, Telangana has refused to stop generation in the view of the prevailing acute power shortage, especially to agriculture.
Prior to Chandrasekhar Rao meeting the Governor, Andhra Pradesh Irrigation Minister D Umamaheswara Rao briefed him over the continued power generation at Srisailam by Telangana.
"We met Governor and told him that water levels at Srisailam are coming down. It is alarming. It is coming down to 856 ft. The ayacut of SRBC in Rayalaseema needs to be protected.
"We tell Telangana as well, let's protect and save water. Up to 70,000 cusecs of water is going into the sea through the Prakasam barrage. We should not be hardening our stance," the minister told reporters.
