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Cauvery meet put off

By Gargi Parsai

New Delhi June 2. The 17th meeting of the Cauvery Monitoring Committee, scheduled for June 6, will now be held on June 9. The postponement is because the Chairman of the Committee and Water Resources Secretary, A.K. Goswami, has to be in Himachal Pradesh for a court hearing on that day.

The CMC, under the Cauvery River Authority, is set to discuss the distress sharing formula between the basin States of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Pondicherry.

With a delay in the onset of the monsoon this year and low reservoir levels in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, the stress will only increase. Experts here said the States would be well advised to go in for a cropping pattern and plant crops that could withstand water stress.

Both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have differences of opinion on the parameters on the sharing of distress. However, they agree that the net flows into Karnataka's four reservoirs should be taken into account for distress sharing.

However, there is no agreement on the period of inflows series based on which the monthly average flows in Karnataka reservoirs are to be considered.

In an earlier meeting initially, Tamil Nadu had held that pro rata sharing of distress was not within the purview of the Cauvery River Authority and the Cauvery Monitoring Committee and should be decided by the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal which would form part of the final award. But later the State agreed to the distress sharing formula worked out by the Central Water Commission.

Karnataka did not object to a distress sharing formula worked out by the CWC but did not agree with the parameters taken into consideration. The matter would now be taken up in the CMC meeting on June 9.

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