Pennaiyar dispute: T.N. welcomes SC direction, hopes Centre will form tribunal for sharing water with Karnataka

Welcoming the Supreme Court’s absorption to the Union authorities to represent a tribunal to adjudicate the quality betwixt Tamil Nadu and Karnataka implicit the sharing of h2o from the Pennaiyar, Tamil Nadu’s Minister for Water Resources Duraimurugan said connected Monday that the radical of Tamil Nadu expected the Union authorities to instrumentality the direction. The State authorities volition instrumentality up each indispensable measures to get h2o from the Pennaiyar and the Markandeya, helium said.

“I expect the Union authorities to fulfil the expectations of the radical of Tamil Nadu. The Tamil Nadu authorities volition undertake each indispensable steps and support the interests of the radical depending connected these 2 rivers,” Mr. Duraimurugan said successful a statement.

Since the Pennaiyar and the Markandeya autumn nether the Madras-Mysore Agreement of 1892, the Karnataka authorities “needed to get Tamil Nadu’s concurrence if it intended to marque constructions crossed them,” Mr. Duraimurugan underlined. The Tamil Nadu authorities filed a suit and an interlocutory exertion earlier the Supreme Court against Karnataka, which had undertaken works for the operation of a dam. On November 14, 2019, the Supreme Court granted liberty to Tamil Nadu to marque an due exertion to the Union authorities for the constitution of a tribunal for the adjudication of the Pennaiyar h2o dispute.

However, the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti had successful January 2020 acceptable up a Negotiation Committee, and yet connected July 31, 2020, it submitted a last study successful favour of the constitution of the tribunal. “However, the Union authorities delayed the tribunal’s constitution,” the Minister said.

Mr. Duraimurugan recalled gathering the Union Minister of Jal Shakti connected July 6, 2021, reiterating Tamil Nadu’s request for a tribunal. After respective rounds of attempts, a Second Negotiation Committee was constituted, which yet submitted its last report.

The Tamil Nadu authorities requested for contiguous enactment for submitting a study to the Supreme Court regarding the Second Pennaiyar Negotiation Committee’s result truthful arsenic to pave the mode for the constitution of a tribunal for the solution of the Pennaiyar quality without immoderate further delay. It followed up the case, and connected February 2, the Supreme Court directed the Union authorities to represent a tribunal wrong a period to adjudicate the quality betwixt Tamil Nadu and Karnataka implicit the sharing of Pennaiyar stream water.