Overview

• Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka released 1,500 cusecs from Palair Reservoir into the Nagarjunasagar Left Canal on Monday to irrigate Khammam’s Zone II fields
• Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy confirmed that permanent repairs to the canal’s under-tunnel are complete and that future releases will be adjusted based on reservoir levels to serve four lakh acres
• BRS leader T. Harish Rao accused the Congress government of withholding Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation pumps at Medigadda barrage, warning that about 80 tmc ft of Godavari inflows were going unused daily and crops were wilting
• Senior BRS MLA G. Jagadishwar Reddy claimed former Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao could restore water supply from Kaleshwaram within three days if control of the project were handed to him
• The dispute unfolds under a judicial probe into Kaleshwaram’s structural and financial irregularities and an inter-state row with Andhra Pradesh over the Godavari–Banakacherla link, highlighting wider governance and resource management challenges