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Tamil Nadu
By Our Tamil Nadu Bureau
The Cabinet, which met here in the wake of another emerging Cauvery crisis, also resolved to boycott the meetings of the Cauvery monitoring committee headed by the Secretary, Union Ministry of Water Resources. Instead, the State Government would move the Supreme Court under Article 131 for a direction to the Centre that it frame a new scheme to be submitted by Tamil Nadu under Section 6 A of the Inter-State Water Disputes Act, 1956, for effectively implementing the Cauvery Tribunal orders. The State would also file before the Supreme Court a suit seeking a direction to Karnataka to ``honour and implement'' the Tribunal's interim order and also the final award, yet to be passed. ``The CRA in its present form does not possess any powers and it is unable to effectively implement the orders of the Tribunal,'' according to an official statement on the Cabinet decision. Karnataka had not complied with any of the orders of the CRA or the recommendations of the monitoring committee so far, the statement said. (The Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK has been consistently opposing the ``toothless'' CRA since it was set up in 1998 during the erstwhile DMK regime.) When the Chief Minister called on the Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee, in New Delhi recently, he said Tamil Nadu's plea for amending the rules of business of the Authority could be not heeded without obtaining the consent of Karnataka. Hence, the Tamil Nadu Cabinet's resolution to boycott the Authority and move the Supreme Court. In its interim order, the tribunal stipulated that Karnataka release 205 tmcft of water, but Tamil Nadu has received only about 160 tmcft so far, leaving a deficit of over 40 tmcft of water. And, till June 20, only 1.25 tmcft was realised in the Mettur reservoir as against the prescribed quantum of 7 tmcft for the corresponding period this month. The result: the kuruvai crop in Tamil Nadu, normally spread over 1.17 lakh hectares in the delta region, has been restricted to about 8,730 hectares as water is yet to be released from the Mettur reservoir. Last year, the Cabinet decided to file a suit before the Supreme Court seeking a directive to Karnataka to implement the interim award, direct the Authority to ensure a weekly and monthly pattern of release and issue a decree of mandatory injunction directing the Centre to appropriately modify the Authority to ensure flows to Tamil Nadu. The suit was tentatively listed for hearing on July 22. However, the delta farmers associations oppose the Government's move to ``undermine'' the Authority. S. Ranganathan, secretary, Cauvery Delta Farmers Welfare Association, said: ``The present Authority with the Prime Minister as Chairman and Chief Ministers of the States concerned is a good forum to exchange views and come to a solution''. ``Any debate on the Authority would not solve our present problem and any solution could be found for the immediate problem only by using the Authority,'' said V. Durai Manickam, general secretary, Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Sangam.
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