THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA Writ Petition No.26894 of 2009 ORDER: 1 Petitioner asserts that Chinnadam village is situated near to the sea coast and Upputeru drain passes through the village of Chinnadam and Gogannamatam and joins into the sea at Vodalarevu village. For the agricultural operations the villagers depend upon irrigation canals i.e. Chinnadam Main Canal, Chinnadam No.1 Branch Canal, Chinnadam No.1 Canal pipe and Geddada No.2 Canal and there are more than 500 acres of agricultural fields. The drain passes through the above 500 acres of agricultural land and since the sea is nearer to the Chinnadam, Magatapalli and Gogannamatam villages of erstwhile Razole Taluq of East Godavari District, there is seepage of ground water and thereby there is lot of salinity. Since the villagers are mainly depending upon the canal water for drinking purpose, agricultural purpose and also for feeding their cattle they will face lot of problems for drinking water due to seepage of salt water in the drinking water wells as well as bore wells of other area. Petitioner further submits that they came to know that the respondents are not releasing water for second crop while releasing water to some other areas of the District. If water is not released the villages of Chinnadam, Kadali, Geddada and Gogannamatam will be put to irreparable loss due to seepage of salt water and their agricultural lands will be spoiled and it will be difficult to feed drinking water to their cattle. In that regard the petitioner and some others gave a representation to the respondents 1 and 2 with a request to release water for second crop by taking into consideration the geographical condition of Chinnadam and surrounding villages, whereupon the third respondent examined the feasibility of release of water for additional ayacut and accordingly by his report dated 18.11.2009 addressed to the Executive Engineer, DC Division, Dowleswaram requesting him to issue necessary orders for release of water to the ayacut mentioned in the said report. The grievance of the petitioner is that in spite of repeated requests, the respondent authorities are not issuing notification for release of water. Hence he approached this court and filed the present Writ Petition. 2 Heard both sides. 3 Having regard to the fact that the ayacut of Chennadam No. 1 Channel is Ac.983 and the reasons assigned by the Deputy Executive Engineer appear to be genuine, this court disposes of this Writ Petition with a direction to the Executive Engineer to consider the said report submitted by the Deputy Executive Engineer regarding the feasibility of release of water to Chennadam main Kadali 1 & 2 and pass appropriate orders within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. No order as to costs. -------------- 09.12.2009 C.C. in Two days B/o kvsn