The Krishna River Management Board will discuss issues with budgetary support and the working arrangement today. The board will meet to discuss management for sharing of waters of the Krishna during the 2021-22 water year. 

The meeting will also take on agendas like the ongoing tussle between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. These two states are in a fight in regard to the utilization of Krishna water, is also to shift the KRMB headquarters from Hyderabad to Visakhapatnam. as per the notice issued by KRMB member-secretary DM Raipure, providing budgetary support to the board is one of the critical issues that will come up for discussion at the meeting to be also attended by water resources officials of the two states. This is the third meeting where the KRMB proposed to create a reserve fund of ₹10 crores but so far both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have not contributed any amount. The KRMB has requested the two states to release ₹10 crores each immediately to meet its expenditure.

The Telangana government released ₹3.5 crores last year against its allocated amount of ₹8.37 crore. "No funds were received from the Andhra Pradesh government in the last two years," Raipure added. Raipure further stated that Telangana's request for allowing it to carry over the unutilized share of water to the next year and Andhra Pradesh’s objection to it would also be discussed in the meeting. The meeting would also discuss the Andhra Pradesh government’s complaint against the construction of several micro-irrigation projects in Telangana.

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