The Rayalaseema Praja Sanghala Samanvaya Vedika has begun a marketing campaign to spotlight the injustice meted out to the area by the successive governments.

Members of the Rayalaseema Saguneeti Sadhana Samithi (RSSS), led by its founder Bojja Dasaratharami Reddy, on Monday went spherical Kowluru village in Panyam mandal explaining to folks about how the area has remained under-developed and the way it was not given its due share of water.

‘Deeksha’ deliberate on Nov. 16 in Vijayawada

“Whereas the State authorities introduced Kurnool as judicial capital, it has not taken any administrative/legislative measure to make it a actuality, nor did it set up the Krishna River Administration Board in Kurnool,” mentioned Mr. Dasaratharami Reddy.

He added that the samithi would take out a “deeksha” at Dharna Chowk in Vijayawada on November 16.

Talking at Kowluru on Monday, he took critical objection to the undertaking okayed to transform the River Kundu, which originates from Orvakal, into an Irrigation canal to take water to Kadapa.

The river mattress is being dug 3 meters deep with none environmental permissions and affecting the 1.20 lakh acres of stabilised ayacut. “Whereas the present movement is 30,000 cusecs, they need to improve it to 1.2 lakh cusecs in order that water might attain Kadapa district,” he identified.

Even earlier than finishing all of the pending irrigation tasks on Krishna as supplied within the A.P. Reorganization Act, the State authorities was focusing solely on Polavaram undertaking, with no concern for water wants of the area. Decentralised improvement promised by the YSRCP authorities was nowhere to be seen, he identified.