Karnataka Assembly resolution on Cauvery dispute has no value: former SC judges

Former Supreme Court judges have termed the resolution passed by the two Houses of Karnataka on September 23 to deny Tamil Nadu Cauvery water merely an ill-advised misadventure.

They said the resolution was no match for the constitutional might of the Supreme Court as the final and sole arbiter of Inter-State and Inter-State water disputes.

Former Supreme Court judge, Justice K.T. Thomas said the “resolution is only to fit to be kept in the records of the Karnataka Legislature and has no authority.”

“At best, its [Karnataka Legislature] resolution can be treated as an expression of opinion or a criticism of the Supreme Court order. Everyone has the right to criticise a court order. But the Supreme Court is the final authority in resolving inter-State water disputes,” Justice Thomas said.


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Cauvery row: Karnataka says can't provide additional water to Tamil Nadu till December

NEW DELHI: The Karnataka government, led by CM Siddaramaiah, filed a petition in the Supreme Court on Monday seeking modification of its order asking it to release 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery water per day to Tamil Nadu till September 27. According to reports, the state government today said it cannot provide additional water from the Cauvery river to Tamil Nadu till December because its reservoirs don't have adequate water and its major cities are on the verge of running out of drinking water.

The petition also argues that from June to September, there tends to be a shortfall in release. As Tamil Nadu will get the north-east monsoon in October, Karnataka will release water as per the neighbouring state's requirements depending on quantum of rainfall.


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Can't Share Cauvery Water Till December, Says Karnataka

NEW DELHI: Karnataka has said that it can't discharge any more water from the River Cauvery to neighboring Tamil Nadu till December, giving the most recent portion in a war that includes the Supreme Court.

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Bengaluru calm amid curfew

 An uneasy calm prevailed in Bengaluru, as parts of the city was still under curfew and heavy security cover. Metro services continued to be suspended. No major incidents of violence were reported.

On Monday, one person died and four were injured in police firing. Mobs set vehicles on fire and attacked businesses with Tamil names after the Supreme Court ordered that Cauvery water continue to flow to Tamil Nadu.

Police opened fire at Rajagopal Nagar in Bengaluru, when a mob tried to torch one of their vehicles. Curfew was imposed in seven police station limits of the city. Around noon, soon after the court declined to accept Karnataka’s appeal to freeze its September 5 order on release of water, hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Bengaluru, burning vehicles with Tamil Nadu registration numbers. The violence virtually paralysed the Bengaluru-Mysuru highway.

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Cauvery Row: Anger In Bengaluru, Vehicles Told Not To Go To Tamil Nadu

BENGALURU:  In the Cauvery water dispute, massive protests erupted in Karnataka on Monday, especially on the streets of Bengaluru and Mysuru, as a modified Supreme Court order meant the state has to release more water to neighbour Tamil Nadu.
Here are 10 developments in the story:
1-On Karnataka's petition, the court modified an earlier order and said the state has to release less river water to Tamil Nadu but for five more days. Karnataka, which will end up giving more water after the modified order, urged the court to reconsider but its request was rejected.
2-In Bengaluru and Mysuru, shops and vehicles of Tamil Nadu were attacked and set on fire.
3-Karnataka has stopped bus services to Tamil Nadu and police jeeps were positioned along the border to warn vehicles against entering that state.
4-Schools and colleges were closed early in Bengaluru and metro services have been stopped as a precaution.
5-In Chennai, a hotel owned by a Karnataka company was vandalized by a fringe group. The attackers broke into the New Woodlands hotel early this morning, broke glasses and window panes. 6-They allegedly also threw a petrol bomb and left pamphlets warning of retaliation if Tamils were targeted in Karnataka.
7-Four members of the group have been arrested. At least 10 people were involved in the attack, the police say.
8-Five tourist vehicles from Karnataka, including two buses, were vandalized in Rameswaram in southern Tamil Nadu.
9-Over the weekend, a young man - reported to be Tamil - was attacked and humiliated in Bengaluru by a group allegedly over his comments on social media on the Cauvery dispute. In a video of the attack that went viral, the engineering student was slapped and kicked by the men. The police suspect he was attacked after his post on Facebook mocking Kannada actors was widely circulated.
The protests began after Karnataka was asked last week by the Supreme Court to release 15,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu daily from the river Cauvery, which flows through both states.
10-On Monday the Supreme Court, responding to Karnataka's petition that it would not be able to release that much water, modified its order.

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Karnataka Bandh Shuts Down Bengaluru, All IT Firms Take Day Off: 10 Facts

Here are the top 10 updates in this big story:

  1- In Bengaluru -- which solely depends on the Cauvery River for drinking water for its 10 million citizens -- the IT industry, comprising software majors like Infosys and Wipro and about 400 multinationals, has declared a holiday. The infamous city traffic is off the roads but there are protests at junctions across the city.
  2-  Government schools and colleges are closed to prevent inconvenience to students and teachers. Though government offices are open, attendance is thin because of the absence of public transport.
  3-  The Bengaluru Metro is not running on Friday morning. There are no airport taxis on the deserted roads of the city and and local television channels showed an auto rickshaw driver being beaten this morning for bringing his vehicle out.
  4-  The government has said that essential supplies like milk and hospitals will be unaffected. But chemists are expected to be closed as are banks and restaurants. The Karnataka film industry has said it will not work today.
  5-  People have been advised not to enter Karnataka in vehicles with Tamil Nadu registration numbers, with protesters stationing themselves at the border between the two states.
  6-  The protests started in Karnataka's Mandya district on Monday after the Supreme Court ordered the state to release 15,000 cusecs of water from the river Cauvery to Tamil Nadu for the next 10 days.
  7-  While the protest has its epicentre in Mandya, a huge section of the population is voluntarily supporting the shutdown called by pro-Karnataka parties.
  8-  Karnataka says it does not have enough water for drinking or irrigation. The level of water in four of the state's reservoirs on the Cauvery is lower than usual. Farmers had not been getting water from the dams - release of water for them started only on Thursday.
  9-  The Congress government in the state has appealed for peace, but will not be unhappy at a message being sent out over the release of water. The opposition BJP is also supporting the bandh and its leaders will hold protests today.
  10-  Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda of the JD(S) will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday to discuss the issue and explain Karnataka's point of view.

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Cauvery water war: When did the dispute start and where are we now?

The Cauvery dispute started in the year 1892, between the Madras Presidency (under the British Raj) and the Princely state of Mysore when they had to come to terms with dividing the river water between the two states.

Since that day, Cauvery water has been a bone of contention between the two states. In the year 1910, both states started planning the construction of dams on the river. The issue was presided upon by the British who also decided which state would receive what share of the water. In 1924, an agreement was signed between the two states where the rules of regulation of the Krishnarajsagar dam were pointed out. In a report published by The Times of India, senior counsel AK Ganguly pointed out that the clause 11 of the agreement provided " for such modifications and additions as may be mutually agreed upon as the result of reconsideration'' after a passage of five decades, this revision clause was only applicable to projects other than KRS. The core of the agreement was the conditions governing the construction and operation of KRS and that could not be subject to any review. Hence the 1924 agreement gave both — the Madras presidency and the Mysore state — rights to use the surplus waters of the Cauvery.

Madras had objected to the construction of the Krishnasagar dam and hence the agreement gave them the liberty to build the Mettur dam. However the agreement also put restrictions on the extent of area irrigated by Madras and Mysore using the river water.



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Cauvery water dispute: When did it start and where are we now?

The Cauvery dispute started in the year 1892, between the Madras Presidency (under the British Raj) and the Princely state of Mysore when they had to come to terms with dividing the river water between the two states.

Since that day, Cauvery water has been a bone of contention between the two states. In the year 1910, both states started planning the construction of dams on the river. The issue was presided upon by the British who also decided which state would receive what share of the water. In 1924, an agreement was signed between the two states where the rules of regulation of the Krishnarajsagar dam were pointed out. In a report published by The Times of India, senior counsel AK Ganguly pointed out that the clause 11 of the agreement provided " for such modifications and additions as may be mutually agreed upon as the result of reconsideration'' after a passage of five decades, this revision clause was only applicable to projects other than KRS. The core of the agreement was the conditions governing the construction and operation of KRS and that could not be subject to any review. Hence the 1924 agreement gave both — the Madras presidency and the Mysore state — rights to use the surplus waters of the Cauvery.

Madras had objected to the construction of the Krishnasagar dam and hence the agreement gave them the liberty to build the Mettur dam. However the agreement also put restrictions on the extent of area irrigated by Madras and Mysore using the river water.

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Cauvery agitation: Siddaramaiah calls for all-party meeting today

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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has convened an all-party meeting  in the state on Tuesday evening to decide the government’s course of action in the wake of the Supreme Court directing Karnataka to release 15,000 cusecs of water over the next 10 days from Cauvery to Tamil Nadu.

The Supreme Court’s orders came in the wake of a plea by Tamil Nadu government against Karnataka’s alleged violation of orders of the Cauvery River Water Disputes Tribunal for release of water for agriculture in the Cauvery basin in Tamil Nadu.

Karnataka has been arguing that it does not have sufficient water in its reservoirs in the Cauvery basin to service the agricultural requirements of both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu on account of insufficient rainfall during the monsoon.


The state has claimed it has only 51 TMC of water in its reservoirs in the Cauvery basin which can service only the drinking water needs of south Karnataka.

Siddaramaiah is holding consultations with legal experts and opposition parties on Tuesday even as a bandh has been organised by farmers and pro-Karnataka organisations in the Mandya region of the state where the agricultural and drinking water requirements are met by the Cauvery river.

“We are yet to receive a copy of the Supreme Court order. Once we examine it we will consult all parties and take a decision,” Siddaramaiah said on Monday.

The head of the Cauvery water agitation group in Karnataka the veteran G Madegowda has threatened serious consequences if the Congress government releases water at the cost of farmers in the Mandya region. Madegowda has demanded the removal of the head of Karnataka’s legal panel in the Supreme Court, Fali S Nariman, for failing to effectively present the case of the state.

With the emotive Cauvery issue resulting in violence and farmer suicides in the past, the state government has deployed additional police forces in the Mandya region – especially on the Bengaluru-Mysore highway and at the Krishna Raja Sagar reservoir near Mysore.

The Mandya district collector has banned tourist activity at the Brindavan Gardens next to the KRS reservoir for four days till September 9 on account of the Cauvery agitation.

The state transport corporation cancelled bus services going via Mandya on the Bengaluru-Mysore route on Tuesday.


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Karnataka releases surplus Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu

Salem/Dharmapuri: With rain resuming in Karnataka, after a few days gap the surplus Cauvery water was on Thursday released from Kabini dam and Krishnaraja Sagar dam to Tamil Nadu. "The water reached the gauging station at Biligundulu, near Hogenakkal in Dharmapuri district on Thursday evening. From there, water reached Hogenakkal waterfalls on the same night," a Central water commission (CWC) official in Biligundulu told TOI.


Following the heavy rain in water catchment areas of Karnataka, huge quantum of water was released from Krishnaraja Sagar dam and Kabini dam in the past. It crossed 12,000cusecs on Thursday. As of now, 12,500cusecs of water is being released from both the dams.


CWC officials said the water inflow is expected to increase in the days to come. According to PWD officials at Mettur dam, the water level there stood at 73.37ft against its full capacity of 120ft. The inflow was 9,000cusecs and the discharge level was 1,250cusecs.


Sources said, the water inflow to Kabini dam measured around 5,000cusecs, while the outflow was 3,600cusecs. Similarly, inflow to Krishnaraja Sagar dam was 10,000cusecs while the outflow was 7,500cusecs. "If the same situation continues for a few more days, both the dams would reach its full capacity," sources said and added that the Karnataka government would release all copious water to Tamil Nadu after the dams reach its full level. tnn


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