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Cauvery wrangle

Sir, — Your Editorial "No end to the wrangle" (Sept. 10): The common man in Tamil Nadu may be pardoned for feeling betrayed by a less than impartial CRA headed by the Prime Minister himself. Despite the Supreme court order, Karnataka got an obliging Prime Minister to convene the CRA without due notice and scaled down its earlier offer made before the court to a mere 0.70 tmcft. The Prime Minister overruled Tamil Nadu's protests and reduced the daily quota to 0.80 tmcft. This is rank injustice to the State and its ryots, who have already lost the kuruvai crop, and, now, the CRA order has made the samba crop doubtful too. Tamil Nadu has as many as 10 Ministers in the Union Cabinet. Still, this cavalier treatment has been meted out to the State.

R. Narayanan,
Mumbai

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