Telangana: Karimnagar farmers demand water from Narayanpur Reservoir to save crops

Farmers from Mokdumpur, Nallguntapalli, Mandulapalli, Chegurthi and Erukulla submitted a representation to Collector Pamela Satpathy

Karimnagar: Farmers from Karimnagar rural mandal have demanded the State government to protect their standing crops by supplying water into the Sri Ram Sagar canal from Narayanpur reservoir.

Farmers from Mokdumpur, Nallguntapalli, Mandulapalli, Chegurthi and Erukulla submitted a representation to Collector Pamela Satpathy on Wednesday. The farmers said that with a hope to get water, they had sowed crops in 1000 acres under D-89 of SRSP canal.

Though the water was released through the canal in four spells, their lands had not got a single drop of water.

The entire crop was likely to wither as wells and borewells located on the bank of the rivulet were completely dried up. They had already brought the issue to the notice of Union Minister of State for Home Bandi Sanjay Kumar.

They wanted the government to protect their crops by releasing water to the Erukulla rivulet from Narayanpur reservoir.