Cauvery row: Karnataka to move SC challenging order to release 3,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu
The protesters had called a state-wide bandh on September 26. Siddaramaiah, while speaking to reporters in Chamrajnagar, said the state's legal team has recommended that the government should move to the apex court to challenge the Cauvery regulation panel's latest directive.
Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels :rocket: Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights!" Click here! "We are challenging the order of the Regulation Committee before the Supreme Court. We don't have water to give," news agency PTI quoted the chief minister as saying.
Earlier, Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar had on September 26 expressed satisfaction over the CWRC rejecting the request of Tamil Nadu, which wanted Karnataka to release 12,000 cusecs. The committee, instead, recommended Karnataka to release 3,000 cusecs of water.
Karnataka submitted before CWRC at its meeting in New Delhi that the shortfall in cumulative inflows to its four reservoirs in the Cauvery basin up to September 25, which hold just 53.04 percent of their capacity. According to Karnataka officials, due to the failure of the south-west monsoon (from June to September) this year, there is no sufficient storage in the four reservoirs and the state is facing such a grave situation that it is finding it extremely difficult even to cater to the drinking water requirements, let alone supplying for irrigation.
The rainfall received in Karnataka this year in August and September is the lowest in the last 123 years, they said. (With PTI inputs)"Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels
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