Karnataka, Maharashtra Agree To Get to the bottom of Water Sharing Problems
BS Yediyurappa held a high-level assembly with Maharashtra Water Useful resource Minister to unravel the problem.
Bengaluru:
Karnataka and Maharashtra on Saturday made up our minds to have higher coordination and communique relating to flood control and water provide within the drought-hit areas of each the states.
Leader Minister B S Yediyurappa and state House Minister Basavaraj Bommai held a high-level assembly with Maharashtra Water Useful resource Minister Jayant Patil in Bengaluru to unravel the water-related problems between the 2 states.
Addressing newshounds after the meet, Mr Yediyurappa mentioned each the states have agreed to proportion real-time information on rainfall and water free up from reservoirs each in Krishna and Bhima basin in an effort to arrange the floods successfully.
“We mentioned quite a lot of problems relating to flood control in Krishna and Bheema river basins. It was once made up our minds to have higher coordination and communique between two states at ministerial point,
Secretaries point and on the box point,” the CM mentioned.
It was once resolved {that a} technical staff will paintings against getting 4 TMC water from Maharashtra and in go back free up water to the drought-hit spaces of the western state, the Leader Minister mentioned.
The 2 states additionally agreed to finish the Dudhganga dam mission on the earliest and Maharashtra can even fund it.
“Maharashtra can even provide sufficient price range for the of completion of Dudhganga dam,” Mr Patil mentioned within the press convention.
Pointing to the lack of water all the way through April and Would possibly within the Krishna basin area, Mr Bommai mentioned since 2013, Maharashtra has been charging cash for the discharge of water to the state.
On the other hand, it’s been agreed upon that Karnataka is not going to pay however will provide water to the drought-hit Jath taluk of Maharashtra all the way through the wet season.
For the previous 3 years, the state has been witnessing flood in Krishna and Bhima rivers following downpour in its catchment spaces in Maharashtra.
