The Karnataka Assembly passed a unanimous resolution on Friday Sep 23,2016
asking the Government not to release Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu.
The Assembly, at the end of the special session, decided to retain Cauvery water to meet the drinking water needs of the state.
Earlier, a resolution asking the government to use Cauvery water only to meet drinking water needs was moved at a special session of the Karnataka Assembly, implying that the state cannot comply with the latest Supreme Court direction to release water to Tamil Nadu.
Highlighting the "state of acute distress", the resolution, endorsed by all parties, said it was "imperative" that the government ensures that no water from the present storages be drawn "save and except" for meeting drinking water needs of villages and towns in the Cauvery basin and Bengaluru.
The interests of the inhabitants of the state are likely to be gravely jeopardised if water in the four reservoirs in the Cauvery basin was in anyway reduced other than for meeting the drinking water needs of the people in the Cauvery basin, including the entire city of Bengaluru, it said.
The resolution moved in English by Opposition BJP leader Jagadish Shettar and in Kannada by Y S V Datta of JDS did not refer to the apex Court direction to the state to release 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery water per day to Tamil Nadu but is expected to put Karnataka on a collision course with the judiciary.
The Assembly, at the end of the special session, decided to retain Cauvery water to meet the drinking water needs of the state.
Earlier, a resolution asking the government to use Cauvery water only to meet drinking water needs was moved at a special session of the Karnataka Assembly, implying that the state cannot comply with the latest Supreme Court direction to release water to Tamil Nadu.
Highlighting the "state of acute distress", the resolution, endorsed by all parties, said it was "imperative" that the government ensures that no water from the present storages be drawn "save and except" for meeting drinking water needs of villages and towns in the Cauvery basin and Bengaluru.
The interests of the inhabitants of the state are likely to be gravely jeopardised if water in the four reservoirs in the Cauvery basin was in anyway reduced other than for meeting the drinking water needs of the people in the Cauvery basin, including the entire city of Bengaluru, it said.
The resolution moved in English by Opposition BJP leader Jagadish Shettar and in Kannada by Y S V Datta of JDS did not refer to the apex Court direction to the state to release 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery water per day to Tamil Nadu but is expected to put Karnataka on a collision course with the judiciary.
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