Cauvery Issue

The Tamil Nadu government will strongly fight for the release of 14,000 cusecs of Cauvery river water by Karnataka to the state, Water Resources Minister Duraimurugan said on Friday amidst the travails of farmers in the delta districts in saving standing paddy crops. Farmers dependent only on the water from the Mettur dam have taken up Kuruvai crop (short-term) cultivation in the delta districts and in certain pockets in Thanjavur district, anticipating steady discharge of Cauvery water from neighbouring Karnataka have taken up the Samba (long-duration) paddy crop. However, their hopes of realising a good yield appears bleak owing to the water level in the Mettur reservoir nearing dead storage. Besides agriculture, water from the dam caters to the drinking water requirement in the districts. Tamil Nadu will present its case at Friday's meeting of the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) and strongly contend for the release of 14,000 cusecs of water to save the standing crops

The Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) has recommended Karnataka to ensure release of 3000 cusecs of Cauvery water at Biligundlu starting from September 28 till October 15, 2023

He further stated, "I once again urge the two Chief Ministers to meet at the earliest and steer the discussion on this crisis created by Mother Nature in a different direction"

Farmer bodies, Kannada organisations, and Opposition parties have called for a "bandh" in Bengaluru to protest against the release of water from the Cauvery river in Karnataka to Tamil Nadu

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will hold a "special emergency meeting" on Wednesday, following the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) recommending that Karnataka release 5,000 cusecs of water every day for the next 15 days to Tamil Nadu. The CWRC recommendation came out on Tuesday. Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, ministers of the Cauvery basin region, former chief ministers of all parties, senior ministers of the state cabinet, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members will participate in the emergency meeting. "The special emergency meeting will be held on 13-9-2023 at 12:30 PM at Vidhana Soudha's conference hall," the Chief Minister's office said in a statement. On Tuesday, Siddaramaiah held an emergency meeting regarding the next steps to be taken in view of the CWRC's recommendation. Shivakumar, several senior ministers and officials including Chief Secretary, and Chief Minister's Legal Advisor Ponnanna participated in the meeting. After CWRC recommendation came ou

Karnataka has started releasing water from its reservoirs to Tamil Nadu in compliance with the directives issued by the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA), official sources said. The CWMA had directed the Karnataka government to ensure that 5,000 cusecs (cubic feet per second) of water reaches Biligundlu in Tamil Nadu everyday for the next fortnight up to September 12. Karnataka was earlier asked to release 10,000 cusecs of water but the state appealed against the verdict saying that there was inadequate rainfall in the catchment areas of Cauvery basin. Taking Karnataka's concerns into consideration, the CWMA ordered releasing 5,000 cusecs. The water was released from Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) dam and Kabini reservoir in Mysuru, the sources said on Wednesday. Various farmers' organisations staged protests against the release of water from KRS dam and Kabini reservoir. Overnight protests took place in Mandya and Srirangapatna in the Cauvery belt.

Tamil Nadu and Karnataka have been locked in a decades-long battle over the sharing of water from the Cauvery River

In order to discuss inter-state water disputes, the Karnataka government will convene an all-party meeting in the first week of February, said Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday.Chief Minister Bommai held a meeting on inter-state water disputes related to Krishna, Cauvery river basins and the Mahadayi project with ministers, legal experts and the senior counsels who represent the state in the water disputes before the courts.Speaking to mediapersons after the meeting, chief minister said the legal counsels presented details about these cases. Another video conference would be conducted to discuss all these issues by the end of January."We will discuss with legal counsels, our water resources minister and law minister about the progress of the legal fight so far. How we should move ahead. What measures need to be taken to implement the projects in the interest of the state. Some cases are at a crucial stage. So, we need to discuss once again with legal experts and leaders of ..

The apex court had on February 16 asked the Centre to formulate a scheme to ensure compliance with its judgement on the decades-old Cauvery dispute

Team was set up in pursuance to the October 4 Supreme Court order asking the Cauvery Supervisory Committee to visit the river basin area

Since violence broke due to Supreme Court's order to release water from the Cauvery, tourist arrivals have more than halved

Asks Centre to constitute the Cauvery Management Board as directed by the Supreme Court

Supreme Court asked for daily release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu from from October 7 to 18

The BJP-led government has one eye on votes in the upcoming Karnataka elections, allege political parties

Lorry owners in South today said that if the states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka don't take steps to resume lorry services between the two states, they will go for an indefinite strike. They alleged since lorries are plying between the two states for the last 24 days, because of the unrest in the two states borders due to cauvery issue, goods worth around Rs 15000 crore has been lost.After a meeting of southern lorry owners association, representatives of the lorry owners told reporters that since September 6th, lorries are running between the two states. It may be noted, lorries were hit and burnt in Karnataka after the Supreme Court asked Karnataka to release water to Tamil Nadu.The Lorry owners have said till today no solution was found and already trade worth around Rs 15,000 crore has been affected and asked the Government to release around Rs 20 crore as compensation for the damages for the lorries.Besides, they also want relief from paying tolls for one month and tax reliefs for

The meeting was convened by Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti

Karnataka govt told Supreme Court that it can release additional water to Tamil Nadu only by Dec as they're facing shortage of drinking water

The resolution reiterated the government stand of not releasing Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu

Yesterday, the Karnataka government decided to defer the release of the 6,000 cusecs of water till Friday