CRA will have to meet again for any review/stay of order, says Bansal

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday ruled out a stay or review of the decision of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) directing Karnataka to release 9,000 cusecs of water every day to Tamil Nadu till October 20, saying there was no mechanism for him to do so at the request of a party. The Prime Minister chairs the CRA, which has as members Chief Ministers of the basin States, including Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry.

Amid demands by leaders from Karnataka to review the Cauvery River Authority’s decision of asking the state to release 9,000 cusecs of water for Tamil Nadu, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has conven

Cauvery Monitoring Committee to meet on October 11

The Karnataka government and farmers of the Cauvery basin districts, apart from the people of Bangalore city who are dependant on the river for drinking water, are anxiously awaiting the decision of the Supreme Court, which is expected to hear the review petition on Monday, on the all-important issue of keeping in abeyance the orders of the Cauvery River Authority, which has directed the release of 9,000 cusecs of water a day to the lower riparian State of Tamil Nadu, till October 15.

The Supreme Court will on Monday hear the Karnataka government’s plea to stay its order for releasing 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu from the Cauvery river basin in accordance with the decisio

Bangalore/Mandya/Mysore: As farmers took centre stage by sidelining politicians, Karnataka filed a petition in the Supreme Court on Thursday seeking a stay on the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) dire

The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board took more than 200 random samples of drinking water in Basaveshwarnagar to test their quality, on Thursday.

The KSPCB chairman Vaman Acharya launched the programme jointly with the Karnataka Environment Laboratories Association to establish a water quality mapping index for the City. Talking to mediapersons Chief Scientific Officer KSPCB Dr B R Balagangadhar said the Board which wants to set a quality index for water, air and noise has begun with water.

Urges Supreme Court to modify order on supply to Tamil Nadu

The Karnataka government on Thursday moved the Supreme Court, seeking a stay/modification of its September 28 order, which directed the State to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu daily till October 15 as per the orders of the Cauvery River Authority headed by the Prime Minister. In its application, Karnataka pointed out that it had complied with the order by releasing 99,601 cusecs (from September 20 to October 3).

Kerala has come out against the idea of creating an “overarching national legal framework of general principles on water sector,” which is an item on the agenda of the 14th National Conference of Water Resources and Irrigation Ministers in progress in New Delhi.

Addressing the conference of the Ministers in the national capital, Kerala Minister for Water Resources P.J. Joseph said no such change in the laws governing the water sector was essential since the Constitution and existing legal provisions were sufficient to address issues related to the water sector.

As it convened a meeting of the National Water Resources Council, chaired by the Prime Minister, on Wednesday to discuss the proposed National Water Policy, one of the Central government’s key sugg

Even as the State received the lowest quantum of Cauvery flows during the southwest monsoon (June-September) in the last two decades, Union Water Resources Secretary Dhruv Vijai Singh is to visit Chennai and Bangalore on Thursday (October 4) to meet officials of the Tamil Nadu and Karnataka governments for discussions on the Cauvery issue.

His discussions in Chennai and Bangalore would form part of his preparations for the Cauvery Monitoring Committee (CMC)’s meeting in New Delhi on October 8 to review the position.