Tamilnadu and Karnadaka Going to deal Cauvery River River Problem in Supreme Court.
Karnataka/Tamilnadu: Karnataka has decided to await Prime Minister Manmohan's response to the review petition filed by the state before the Cauvery River Authority,
expressing its inability to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu
for a fortnight, even as Tamil Nadu is gearing up to fight the issue in
the Supreme Court next week.
"The ball is in Prime Minister's
court in his capacity as chairman of the Cauvery River Authority,"
sources in the Karnataka government told TOI. Though chief minister
Jagadish Shettar has taken a decision not to release water to Tamil
Nadu, some farmers of Mandya district, where river Cauvery is the
lifeline, are also bracing up to file a petition. Meanwhile, external
affairs minister S M Krishna had on Friday asked Karnataka and Tamil
Nadu to sit across the table and evolve an amicably acceptable formula
on sharing Cauvery river water.
Krishna wanted Karnataka to
explore whether it could ensure 4,500 cusecs water to Tamil Nadu at
Biligundlu gauging station (interstate border) till October 15 and the
remaining 4,500 cusecs would automatically flow from the seepage. "Such a
decision would be in the interest of both the states," he said in a
statement. The rainfall in the catchment areas of Kabini reservoir,
which lies in Wayanad region in Kerala, has helped receive good inflows,
but the state has been discharging only 700 cusecs from this reservoir
since Friday. Tamil Nadu government sources said the water will not
reach Mettur at all.
Meanwhile, sources in the Tamil Nadu
government said the state would fight Karnataka's review petition in the
court, "since it's only a ploy to buy time."
When Tamil Nadu
moves the court again, possibly on Monday, one of the prayers would be
to seek a direction to Karnataka to release 9,000 cusecs of water as
awarded by the Prime Minister. "Though our original prayer is to have
2tmcft a day for the next 24 days, we'll also seek 9,000 cusecs at the
earliest, since that is the CRA's direction," said a senior official.
The delay in release of Cauvery water could affect the long-term samba
crop, fear farmers.
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