Telemetry data not valid: KRMB
The Board chairman also assured a full-fledged meeting next week to discuss the issue again.
Hyderabad: Krishna River Management Board chairman S.K. Srivatsava on Friday expressed helplessness with regard to the TS government’s complaint against a contract agency for tampering the data of water release from Srisailam dam to Pothireddpadu head regulator.
Mr Srivatsava convened a meeting with representatives of TS and AP along with the contractor firm that set up the telemetry systems. He told TS Engineer-in-Chief C. Muralidhar that the telemetry systems were established this year on an experimental basis and the data cannot be taken into account due to faulty operations.
He also made it clear that data collected manually by the respective Chief Engineers was available with the KRMB and as such, the Board cannot fix accountability on the agency.
TS had demanded termination of the contract agency and initiation of criminal proceedings against it. However, Mr Srivatsava said told this was not necessary in view of the process being in experimental stage. The Board chairman also assured a full-fledged meeting next week to discuss the issue again.