Cauvery row: Karnataka to maneuver SC difficult order to launch 3,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu
The Karnataka authorities will strategy the Supreme Court docket to problem the path of Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) to launch water to Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah stated on September 27.
The Committee has directed the Karnataka authorities to launch water at a charge of three,000 cubic toes per second (cusecs) to the neighbouring state between September 28 and October 15.
Karnataka is already in midst of protests, known as by pro-Kannada teams and backed by farmer outfits, triggered after a September 21 order of the Supreme Court docket directed the state to launch 5,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu per day. The protesters had known as a state-wide bandh on September 26.
Siddaramaiah, whereas chatting with reporters in Chamrajnagar, stated the state’s authorized workforce has advisable that the federal government ought to transfer to the apex courtroom to problem the Cauvery regulation panel’s newest directive.
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“We’re difficult the order of the Regulation Committee earlier than the Supreme Court docket. We do not have water to present,” information company PTI quoted the chief minister as saying.
Earlier, Deputy Chief Minister D Okay Shivakumar had on September 26 expressed satisfaction over the CWRC rejecting the request of Tamil Nadu, which needed Karnataka to launch 12,000 cusecs. The committee, as a substitute, advisable Karnataka to launch 3,000 cusecs of water.
Karnataka submitted earlier than CWRC at its assembly in New Delhi that the shortfall in cumulative inflows to its 4 reservoirs within the Cauvery basin as much as September 25, which maintain simply 53.04 % of their capability.
Based on Karnataka officers, because of the failure of the south-west monsoon (from June to September) this 12 months, there is no such thing as a adequate storage within the 4 reservoirs and the state is going through such a grave state of affairs that it’s discovering it extraordinarily troublesome even to cater to the ingesting water necessities, not to mention supplying for irrigation.
The rainfall obtained in Karnataka this 12 months in August and September is the bottom within the final 123 years, they stated.
(With PTI inputs)
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Up to date: 27 Sep 2023, 03:40 PM IST
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