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Chief Minister M.K. Stalin should respond decisively to Karnataka’s determination to conception a reservoir successful Mekedatu and guarantee that the 50-year conflict of the little riparian State to unafraid its just stock of Cauvery h2o is not successful vain, P.R. Pandian, president, Coordination Committee of All Farmers Associations of Tamil Nadu, said successful Coimbatore connected Friday.
Mr. Pandian faulted the State Government for having moved against the Karnataka authorities successful the Supreme Court alternatively than taking connected the Jal Sakthi Ministry, Cauvery Water Regulation Committee, and Cauvery Water Management Authority for having accepted the dam connection from the precocious riparian State.
Mr. Pandian cited the apex court’s earlier basal that the verdict of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal connected the stock of h2o for Tamil Nadu could not beryllium appealed against and would beryllium deemed final. This has been published successful the Central Government Gazette.
“The water-sharing look specified by the Tribunal is already a settled contented betwixt the 2 States. With this being the case, Karnataka has nary close to conception immoderate caller dam. The Chief Minister, alternatively than the Water Resources Minister, has to respond to Karnataka connected the contented to summation National-level visibility,” Mr. Pandian contended. The State authorities has to entreaty against the Supreme Court’s remark that Tamil Nadu’s situation against the Central Water Commission’s directive to hole the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the task was “premature”.
He warned that acquiescing to Karnataka’s program would origin desertification of 28 lakh acres successful Tamil Nadu, and artifact h2o availability for 22 districts.
“Tamil Nadu’s nutrient grains accumulation volition beryllium deed hard,” Mr. Pandian cautioned, adding: “In the lawsuit of the Tamil Nadu authorities failing to respond appropriately to Karnataka, farmers’ associations successful the State volition convene an all-party gathering and instrumentality the adjacent people of action.”
