However, the apex court declined to give any specific direction to the CRA as sought by Tami Nadu's counsel C S Vaidyanathan saying, "Can we direct the Prime Minister to release the waters. Can we force a committee headed by the Prime Minister to decide?"
The bench of Justices D K Jain and Madan Lokur also directed the Karnataka Government to file its reply on Tamil Nadu's application for evolving a distress water sharing formula and posted the matter for September 3.
The bench in its order said, "Union of India to place before us its response to the application particularly personal request made by the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu to the Prime Minister by separate letter which are on record."
The state has sought a direction to the Centre for convening the CRA meeting immediately to perform its statutory obligations and approve the distress sharing formula evolved by the Cauvery Monitoring Committee for sharing of flows of the river Cauvery in view of the prevailing "distress" situation in Tamil Nadu.
Jayalalithaa had also written letters to the Prime Minister for the CRA meet.
The apex court expressed its disappointment at the conduct of the Centre in not deputing any senior law officer to assist the court in the matter.
"Please don't provoke us to make observations which are not palpable to Union of India," the bench told Centre's counsel Wasim Ahmed Quadri, after noticing that no senior law officer was present at the time of hearing.