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TN approaches Apex court on Cauvery
row
Chennai, March 30:
The Tamil Nadu Government has approached the
Supreme Court to prevent Karnataka from using the
Cauvery water stored in its four main reservoirs for
irrigation between February and May.
This demand is in line with the final order of Cauvery
Water Disputes Tribunal on February 5, 2007.
On March 21, 2012, the Tamil Nadu Government filed
the interim petition in the Supreme Court seeking an
order to stop Karnataka from using the water stored in
the Harangi, Hemavathi, Krishnaraja Sagar and the
Kabini during the summer months, said the Chief
Minister, Ms J. Jayalalithaa, in the Assembly today.
The Tribunal was constituted by an order of the
Supreme Court in 1991 to resolve the dispute over
the sharing the waters of the multistate river. The
Tribunal gave its final order 17 years later in 2007
spelling out how the water has to be shared between
Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry.
But the order is yet to be implemented as the issue
has been taken to court. Responding to a calling
attention motion Ms Jayalalithaa said when Karnataka
exploits the water during the summer months Tamil
Nadu does not get its fair share at Mettur Reservoir for
its own use.
During the monsoons Karnataka lets out only surplus
water to Tamil Nadu after all its reservoirs are full.
Karnataka disregards the final order of the Tribunal by
using the reservoirs' water to irrigate crops during the
four months.
Between 2007-08 and 2010-11 Karnataka has utilised
41 to 73 thousand million cubic feet of water for
summer irrigation instead of storing it for the next
irrigation season. The final order allows Karnataka to
use 103 tmcft of water during the irrigation season but
the State has utilised over 203 tmcft, she said. Also,
Karnataka does not supply water for Tamil Nadu's
‘Kuruvai' paddy crop in June and July.
Ms Jayalalithaa said the final order could have been
implemented if it had been published in the
Government of India gazette. But all the States
concerned in the dispute and the Central Government
have approached the Tribunal for clarifications. Also,
Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala have filed appeals
in the Supreme Court and the Centre has also
impleaded itself in the case, she said.
She had met the Prime Minister in June 2011 in New
Delhi and submitted a petition that included demands
to publish the order in the official gazette and
constitute a Cauvery Regulatory Authority. She had
reiterated these demands in a letter to the Prime
Minister on October 17.
Pending implementation of the final order, the Tamil
Nadu Government's stand is that the interim order of
June 25, 1991, will be in force. The Cauvery
Monitoring Committee has also expressed the same
opinion in October 16, 2008, in its 23rd meeting.
The Karnataka Government's stand is that the interim
order has lapsed following the announcement of the
final order. Till the final order is implemented, it should
only be a temporary arrangement, a ‘Protem
Governing Regime'.
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