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Tamil Nadu to get 3,000 cusecs of water
NEW DELHI: The Cauvery supervisory committee ordered Karnataka on Monday to release 3,000 cusecs of water from the river to Tamil Nadu daily between September 21
NEW DELHI: The Cauvery supervisory committee ordered Karnataka on Monday to release 3,000 cusecs of water from the river to Tamil Nadu daily between September 21 and 30.
The supervisory committee, in its previous meeting on September 12, had failed to arrive at any decision for want of adequate information which was to be made available by the river basin states. It had asked them to provide the information by September 15.
Tamil Nadu and Karnataka had submitted to the committee data about withdrawal of water, its utilisation, variation in rainfall and its impact on the actual run-off over a period of 29 years in their respective Cauvery basin areas, according to a source.
Besides Shekhar, chief secretaries of TN, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry and the central water commission chairman are members of the committee, formed to implement the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal.
The Supreme Court (SC) had on September 5 asked Tamil Nadu to approach the committee, headed by Union water resources ministry secretary Shashi Shekhar, over the issue.
On that day, the apex court had asked Karnataka to release 15,000 cusecs of water per day for a period of 10 days to Tamil Nadu to ameliorate plight of farmers there.
