A delegation of AIADMK parliamentary members marched to the Prime
Minister’s Office on Tuesday Oct 04,2016 and submitted a memorandum seeking
constitution of the Cauvery Management Board to ensure implementation of
the final award on sharing of the river water among Karnataka, Tamil
Nadu, Puducherry and Kerala.
But it proved to be nothing more than an academic exercise as by the
time the delegation reached the PMO, events had overtaken with the
Centre on Monday owning up its mistake in the Supreme Court that it had
erred in committing to constitute the Board without realising that it
can only be done with the sanction of Parliament.
Besides on Tuesday, acting on the plea of the Union government, the
Supreme Court put on hold its order to the Narenda Modi government to
constitute a Cauvery Management Board and agreed to the Centre’s
suggestion that a “technical team” study the “ground reality.”
Syamal Kumar Sarkar, who was the Secretary in the Water Resources
Ministry when the final award on sharing of Cauvery water was notified
in 2013, told “In 1991 when the interim award was notified,
the Centre had constituted a Cauvery River Authority (CRA) headed by the
Prime Minister and the Chief Ministers of the concerned States. When
the final award came the Centre could not prepare a scheme under Section
6 (A) of the Interstate River Disputes Act, 1956 for its implementation
as some issues were pending in the Supreme Court.”
According to him in 2013, when it was a year of poor rainfall, the
Centre on the directions of the Supreme Court had sent a high-level team
to Tamil Nadu for a first hand assessment of the damage to crops and a
report was submitted.
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