GoI tells to Supreme Court that there is no need to review the present arrangement of sharing of River Krishna waters among Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
Hyderabad: The Stand taken by the Government of India on review of sharing river Krishna water turned out to be a big blow to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
The Telangana State had knocked the doors of the Supreme Court seeking review of the water sharing award among Maharasthra, Karnataka and erstwhile united Andhra Pradesh. The plea of Telangana was that the sharing of Krishna waters caused grave injustice to it, and asked the apex court to direct for reopening of the award and make fresh allocations among the four states falling under Krishna basin.
River waters are one of the major issues forming the demand for the bifurcation for a separate state of Telangana. Post bifurcation, even Andhra Pradesh too had joined the Telangana, favoring for reallocation of Krishna waters among four states.
Following the plea of the Telangana the Supreme Court has sought the opinion of the Centre on the demand of Telangana. After taking much time, on Tuesday, in his oral submission, the Counsel (Additional Solicitor-General) representing the Centre, Tushar Mehta, in the Krishna Waters Dispute case said that the Centre does not feel that there is a need to relook into the issue. And, the two Telugu states would do well to share the united Andhra Pradesh’s quota between them, without disturbing the existing arrangement.
Counsel for Telangana Government Vaidyanathan, while reacting to the stand taken by the Centre said that the submission was not made in writing. Hence, he was in no position to react and he will react after going through the contents of the submissions made by the Centre.
