Telangana Irrigation projects under Andhra Pradesh

Facts on Irrigation, water & agriculture in Telangana, Andhra & Rayalaseema Regions.

• Catchment area of Krishna river in AP.







Region	Catchment Area	Allocation of Water	Actual Utilization
Andhra	13%	49%	87%
Rayalaseema	18%	16%	13%
Telangana	69%	35%	Less than 1%




• Catchment area of Godavari river in AP.







Region	Catchment Area	Utilization Water
Andhra	21%(310TMC)	23%(320 TMC)
Telangana	79%(1170TMC)	9.6%(143 TMC)


405 TMC is being diverted to Andhra via Polavaram project


• Total loss of water share of Telangana merging with Andhra is 1125 TMC. Total cultivation land Telangana lost is 11, 25,000 acres.
  *Note: 1 TMC serves 10000 acres.


• Nagarjuna Sagar Project
  
  
  

  Region	Submerged Land	Cultivated Land
  Andhra	0%	20 lakh acres
  Telangana	100%	4.5 lakh acres

  
  


• Polavaram project is submerging 250 small villages in Telangana, displacing 5lakh tribals is going to provide lakhs of acres cultivation land to Andhra.
• 450 tribal villages, millions of tons of limestone, rich minerals, lot of natural Biodiversity will wash away with if Polavaram project is built.


• AP got nearly 40 major projects in which 37 went to Seemandhra region.
  
  

  Telangana side

  Seemandhra side

  SLBC (30 TMC) not taken up, SLBC beyond Musi (20 TMC) not taken up, RDS extension (10 TMC) not taken up, LIS to high level areas in Mahabubnagar not taken up, Bheema LIS 20 TMC under construction for many years

  Telugu Ganga project (29 TMC) completed, SRBC (19 TMC) completed, KC canal extension completed (10 TMC), Upland areas Brahmamgari matham reservoir (10 TMC) completed, SRBC beyond Gorakallu (20TMC) under construction, Puchintala evaporation losses (5 TMC) under construction, Veligonda not recommended project (40 TMC) almost completed, Handrineeva sujala sarvanthi not recommended (38 TMC) almost completed, Galerunagari sujala sravanthi not recommended (38 TMC) is under construction




• 1953 Andhra Pradesh the area irrigated under Tanks in the Telangana 11 lakh acres. Now it is hardly 6.5 lakh acres.
• Veligonda project is being constructed on war footing basis. This will drain 60 TMC of water from Srisailam. This project is not allotted (water share by tribunal) and do not have clearance till now.
• Nagarjuna Sagar initially meant to benefit Andhra and Telangana. Later on modified in such a way that 75% of the benefit went to Andhra reducing the share of Telangana region to just 25%. Andhra settlers own 50% of these 25% utilization lands.
• Singur project was designed to meet the irrigation needs of Medak Nizamabad. But it is now solely used for meeting the requirements of capital city.
• Jurala Project which is the first project on river Krishna meant for Telangana is the smallest of all the projects built on this river. Tribunal allocated just 17.5 TMC water for this project, but Andhra rulers reduced its storage capacity to 60% ft. The actual utilization so far has not been more than 10%
• Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme, was for 87500 acres in Mahabubnagar. Tribunal
  allocated 15.90 TMC of water for this project. This water has to pass through a canal in Raichur district of Karnataka State. Rayalaseema thugs blasted the gates with bombs and diverted water. Since then Govt never even tried to reconstruct the gates.
• Devadula Project, provides water for 5 lakh acres, was promised to be finished in 5 yrs in 2001, yet to begin work. The funniest fact is, Sriram Sagar is yet to be completed for last 40 yrs which provides water for just 4 lakh acres.


• SLBC despite of all recommendations, clearances and permissions never started.


• Handrineeva Sujala Sravanthi, not allotted not cleared project is going on war footing.
• Two major projects proposed on Godavari - Ichampally (Telangana) & Polavaram(Andhra). Irrigation potential of Polavaram would be 7 times more than Icchampalli.


• Andhra lands have canal irrigation i.e. with tax payer’s money. It costs Rs 200 – 300 water charges/yr. Telangana lands depend on bore wells, entire cost is on the farmer . Digging, power, bore well, motor, pipes.
• Despite 69% Krishna, 79% Godavari flows through Telangana, irrigation cost is Rs.1500/acre. 13% of Krishna, 21% Godavari flows through Andhra Rs.150/acre.
• Nizamsagar was built in 1931. Due to neglected maintenance all its 83 tributaries,243 distributaries have been silted up and eroded. World bank sanctioned 30 crores for the project, which was never spent. The project now going to be almost useless.
• Pothireddypadu regulator was originally created for drinking water to Chennai with 5TMC. Gradually 5 projects were ‘piggy backed’ & augmented to canal. In the name of Chennai drinking water, Seemandhra wanted to take entire Srisailam water


• In Andhra region every year two crops are cultivated because of water availability, in Telangana a single crop will be cultivated with great difficulty.
• AP dairy buys milk from farmers from @ Andhra Rs 24.30, Telangana Rs 22.30
• Government buys sugar cane (per quintal) in Andhra Rs 1200, Telangana Rs 890. Andhra lands are canal cultivated, Telangana depend on bore wells.
• Mahabubnagar 35 lakhs population, migration 14 lakhs, 350km of Krishna stretch, there is no drinking water or irrigation water
• There are never any difficulties in construction of irrigation projects in Andhra. But there are always irregularities, corruption, delays in Telangana projects
• Nearly 500 farmers and uncounted number of weavers committed suicide during
  2000-2009.

When Telangana state was about to form after Chidambaram statements, then our Andhra leaders started agitation for United Andhra Pradesh. Those leaders never talked what they are going to do for Telangana if we stay under Andhra Pradesh, instead they burnt KCR pictures, slogans against Telangana leaders and they even beaten Telangana people who are near to Andhra boders and beaten Telangana people coming from Bangalore to Hyderabad in buses. This is what they do to their so called brothers. It's time for all Telangana people to realize how we are treated under Andhra Pradesh. It's time to fight for our Telangana.

I would like to say a word.
" When we respect our own values or principle or region or language then only we get respect from others" This is applicable to what ever field you take in your life.

I will update more information on other sectors very soon.
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