Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal Meeting Tuesday July 15,2014

The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, which met here on Tuesday July 15,2014 after seven years, asked the Tamil Nadu government to move the Supreme Court and get an order allowing the tribunal to hear applications seeking an “explanation and guidance” on the final award passed on February 5, 2007, allocating the quantum of water for each State.

The applications had been filed by the Centre, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry even as the appeals against the final award are pending adjudication in the apex court.

In its last meeting on July 10, 2007, the tribunal, headed by the then Chairman N.P. Singh, had refused to hear the applications on the ground that since the Supreme Court had admitted special leave petitions (SLPs), it would not be proper for it to take up the clarificatory applications