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T.N. moves Apex Court for convening CRA meet [1]

The Tamil Nadu government on Saturday moved the Supreme Court for a direction to the Centre to convene a meeting of the Cauvery River Authority immediately to perform its statutory obligations and approve the distress sharing formula evolved by the Cauvery Monitoring Committee (CMC) for sharing of flows of the Cauvery in view of the prevailing distress situation in Tamil Nadu.

In its application, the State said: “During the current irrigation year, 2012-2013, though the southwest monsoon is not vigorous in the Cauvery catchment of Karnataka, the State has received 21.9 tmcft in its four major reservoirs up to July 20,

Publication Date: 
23/07/2012
J. Venkatesan [2]
Hindu (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
Cauvery [4], Irrigation [5], Canal Irrigation [6], Krishna [7], Water Disputes [8], Karnataka [9], Supreme Court [10], Farmers [11], Mettur [12], Water Resources [13], Tamil Nadu [14]
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