It may do well for Tamil Nadu to get the Cauvery supervisory committee strengthened to secure its rightful share of water from the Cauvery.
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The committee will meet sometime in October and take a call on the release of water to Tamil Nadu after the end of September. It is a natural situation that when rain god is not kind and there is deficit of rain, issue emerges as to what should be the quantum of water sharing.
In a statement in Chennai, the state Congress chief Su.
“The order was thus passed after the meeting – attended by officials of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Kerala – failed to evolve a consensus”, he said. The MDMK General Secretary Vaiko in a statement has said the apex court direction would serve to deliver justice for Tamil Nadu.
The Supreme Court had also directed the creation of a Cauvery Management Board (CMB), which would mean that the central government would be in charge of all the dams in the Cauvery basin with the state government having no access.
He also held the state government singularly responsible for this “disastrous consequence”. Since then, setting up of the Cauvery Management Board has been a vociferous demand in Tamil Nadu.
“How can the court decide this before that hearing is done?” asked another minister.
Chief minister Siddaramaiah+ on Wednesday made a decision to convene a one-day legislature session on Friday to seek the opinion of elected representatives on the Supreme Court’s order to release 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery+ water per day to Tamil Nadu.
The decision was announced by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah late Wednesday after discussions with the cabinet, legal and irrigation experts, the opposition Janata Dal Secular, and former PM H D Deve Gowda.
Karnataka is not in the mood to implement the directive of Supreme Court to release 6,000 cusecs water of Cauvery river per day to Tamil Nadu from 21st September to 27th September. Proclaiming that while “the Court was free to pass any order it liked”, Nariman categorically stated that he was opposed to it, and that it be recorded in the order.
The Supreme Court had on September 5 asked Tamil Nadu to approach the committee, headed by Union Water Resources Ministry Secretary Shashi Shekhar, over the issue. He said the government is with the people and assured that that it is committed to protect Karnataka’s land and water.
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The verdict meanwhile has triggered protests all over the state. Even pro-Kannada leaders echoed the sentiment saying that the Centre should solve the Cauvery crisis, failing which the state would be forced to think on those lines.
