The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday June 25,2013 moved the Supreme Court for a direction to the Centre to constitute the Cauvery Management Board forthwith for the effective implementation of the final order of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal.
In a fresh
application, Tamil Nadu said the court, on May 10,2013 directed the Centre
to constitute a pro-tem supervisory committee consisting of officials of
the Union Water Resources Ministry and the States of Tamil Nadu,
Karnataka and Kerala and the Union Territory of Puducherry for the
purpose of ensuring the implementation the final order.
The Centre
notified the formation of the committee on May 22,2013
Commenting on the way
Karnataka presented its position on the issue during the first meeting
of the committee on June 1, 2013 the application stated that Karnataka
State was attempting to get over the binding adjudication and avoid the
implementation of the final order in letter and spirit.
In the committee’s next meeting on June 12,2013 Karnataka filed detailed
submissions which would virtually result in non-implementation of the
final order of the Tribunal. Its stand that the committee could not take
decisions as it was not properly formed “clearly demonstrate” that
Karnataka was not willing to share water with Tamil Nadu and that it
would continue “defiant attitude” of not implementing the binding
adjudication of the Tribunal.
Supervisory Committee Meetings
Supervisory Committee Meetings
June 1, 2013: Union Water Resources Secretary Chairs the 1st meeting which saw Tamil Nadu demanding its share of water for June as stipulated in the award.
June 2, 2013:Water can't be released as and when TN demands, says Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.
June 6, 2013: Karnataka says it can't release 134 TMV of Water to TN between June and September.
The action of Karnataka was clearly an “abuse of process of law” and
amounted to contempt of the Supreme Court’s order dated May 10. “The
storage in Karnataka reservoirs has increased from about 14 tmcft
[thousand million cubic feet] recorded on June 10 to 36 tmcft, as on
June 24,2013 an increase of 22 tmcft.
Hence, Tamil Nadu sought a direction to Karnataka to immediately release
10 tmcft of water due to Tamil Nadu for June and thereafter to release
the 10 day flows/monthly flows in the subsequent months as per the final
order of the Tribunal, apart from direction to Karnataka to release
53.18 tmcft to Tamil Nadu, being the shortfall at Mettur Reservoir for
the water year 2012-2013 as computed on the pro rata sharing formula by
the Cauvery Monitoring Committee
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