KCR Postpones Acquiescing To Gazette Notification By 15 Days

The Centre's gazette notification on water projects and issues comes into force from today - the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana governments need to hand over their irrigation and hydel power generation projects to the Centre, represented by the KRMB - but the Telangana government has effectively refused to acquiesce to it at least for now, in the garb of seeking 15 days for a committee to look into the implications of acceding to the gazette notification.

Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has appointed a committee to be headed by ENC Muralidhar, to study the implications and repercussions of passing over the supervising authority over the projects to the Centre.

The Chief Minister sought a report from the committee in 15 days.

The AP government has been ready to cede control of the projects to the union government ever since the notification was released around July of this year, but Telangana has been consistently opposing it, wary of giving up all power over the projects to the Centre, and has been repeatedly asking for a deferring of the enforcement of the gazette.

The Centre had released the gazette notification to address water-related issues among the two warring Telugu states.