Accepting the report of the expert team( team visited Thanjavur, Nagapattinam and Thiruvarur on Feb5,2013) of the Central Water Commission, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed Karnataka to release forthwith 2.44 tmcft of water to Tamil Nadu to save the standing crops on about one lakh acres in the Cauvery delta region
A three-judge Bench of Justices R.M. Lodha, J. Chelameswar and Madan B. Lokur passed the order. It, however, rejected Tamil Nadu’s demand that at least 9 tmcft was required to irrigate about 6 lakh acres of standing crops, even as senior counsel for the State C.S. Vaidyanathan submitted that it was not a fair assessment by the team
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