What solution has been arrived recently in the Cauvery water dispute?
In 1997; the Government proposed the setting up of a Cauvery River Authority vested with far reaching powers to ensure the implementation of the Interim Order.
These powers included the power to take over the control of dams in the event of the Interim Order not being honoured.
Karnataka, which had always maintained that the Interim Order had no scientific basis and was intrinsically flawed, strongly protested the proposal of setting up such an authority.
In 2013, the Indian government had notified the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal.
The Supreme Court on February 2018 delivered its verdict in the decades-old Cauvery water dispute, allocating more water to the state of Karnataka. The top court ordered the Karnataka government to release 177.25 tmcft of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu from its inter-state Biligundlu dam.
The Ministry of Water Resources and River Development directed that the Cauvery Water Management Authority be published in the government gazette. With this, the authority, which will play a major role in sharing of the river's waters amongst three states and a Union Territory is finally official. Headquartered in Delhi, the Cauvery Management Authority will be the sole body to implement the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal award as modified by the SC. The Centre, as per reports, would have no say except for issuing administrative advisories to it.
In 1997; the Government proposed the setting up of a Cauvery River Authority vested with far reaching powers to ensure the implementation of the Interim Order.
These powers included the power to take over the control of dams in the event of the Interim Order not being honoured.
Karnataka, which had always maintained that the Interim Order had no scientific basis and was intrinsically flawed, strongly protested the proposal of setting up such an authority.
In 2013, the Indian government had notified the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal.
The Supreme Court on February 2018 delivered its verdict in the decades-old Cauvery water dispute, allocating more water to the state of Karnataka. The top court ordered the Karnataka government to release 177.25 tmcft of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu from its inter-state Biligundlu dam.
The Ministry of Water Resources and River Development directed that the Cauvery Water Management Authority be published in the government gazette. With this, the authority, which will play a major role in sharing of the river's waters amongst three states and a Union Territory is finally official. Headquartered in Delhi, the Cauvery Management Authority will be the sole body to implement the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal award as modified by the SC. The Centre, as per reports, would have no say except for issuing administrative advisories to it.