Cauvery River to be left for Tamilnadu
Posted on: 06/Dec/2012 12:45:49 PM
More than 10yrs of period we the Tamilnadu people are struggling to get proper flow of cauvery river from karnataka to mettur dam.
Now the reservoir in mettur dam is drying due to scarcity of water and the samba crop at delta regions got a major conflict and they depends upon the Mettur Dam Reservoir.which is also becoming low due to karnatak’s failure of water sharing.the dipute gone a while the two state higher officials and Chief ministers had an official meeting in karnataka but karnataka refused to give even single drop of water to Tamilnadu.
On this case. The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Karnataka to release an additional 10,000 cusecs of Cauvery water daily to Tamil Nadu till Monday and directed the Cauvery Monitoring Committee to meet within two days and submit a report on the quantum of water release for December.
After a three-day hearing on Tamil Nadu`s application seeking urgent release of water to save its second crop, a bench of Justices D K Jain and Madan Lokur passed an interim order asking the upper riparian state to release 10,000 cusecs of Cauvery water. 11,000 cusecs of water make up 1TMC (thousand million cubic feet of water). CMC(Cauvery Monitoring Committee) is requested to hold the meeting on December 6 or 7 to find out water requirement for crops in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka for the month of December and the report would be submitted to the concerned authority," the bench said. We Th CMC told that we direct till the CMC submits its report, Karnataka shall release 10,000 cusecs water per day from today (Wednesday). We make it clear that the order will continue till CMC submits its report," the bench said.
Both states faced a distress situation and added that its effort was to see how best the crops in both states were saved.
