K. Chandrashekar Rao and Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, the chief ministers of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh (AP) respectively, scheduled to conduct a meeting on the 23rd of September.
The meeting is organised to discuss the transfer of water from the Godavari river to the Krishna Basin and various other issues in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
Officials of the irrigation departments of both the states will also be present during the meeting. This is not the first meeting between the AP CM and the Telangana CM regarding the same. Previously, Jagan Mohan Reddy and KCR met and unanimously decided to transfer water from the Godavari river to the Krishna Basin to solve the water issues in Telangana.
The governments of Telangana and AP even constituted a committee of engineers separately to prepare a route map regarding the same. The meeting was scheduled after the committees submitted their final report. Initially, the meeting was scheduled to be held on the 24th of September, but it was preponed to the 23rd of September.
On the 19th of September, R.K. Gupta, the Chairman of the Krishna Board in Telangana, met the Engineer in Chief (ENC) of Telangana and the ENC of AP and discussed the usage of water. After the meeting, the Telangana Government ordered the Committee of Joint Engineers to calculate the amount of water transferred from the Pothireddypadu Head Regulatory.
Apart from the Godavari water issue, the CMs are also expected to discuss the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2014 and the assets-debts and employees sharing issues between the two Telugu States.
The meeting is scheduled to start at 4:00 P.M, at Pragati Bhavan, Telangana.
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