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Convene CRA, Jayalalithaa urges Manmohan Singh

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, JUNE 5. The Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, has written to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, urging him to "convene a meeting of the Cauvery River Authority forthwith to review the overall situation of the implementation of the interim orders of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal" by Karnataka.

In Friday's letter, she said the meeting was also necessary to finalise a distress-sharing formula. ``If the formula is finalised, it will enable Tamil Nadu to get at least the benefit of releases as per the formula if a distress situation arises during the current irrigation year."

The Chief Minister recalled that as early as 1991, the tribunal ordered that Karnataka ensure that 205 tmcft (thousand million cubic feet) of water was made available in the Mettur dam from its reservoirs in an irrigation year from June to May in a monthly stipulated pattern. The deficit in one week had to be made good the following week. Out of 205 tmcft, Tamil Nadu was to release six tmcft to Pondicherry. Karnataka had not implemented the award.

Ms. Jayalalithaa said that in the past two years, Tamil Nadu was not able to open the Mettur dam on the scheduled date (June 12), leading to loss of the kuruvai crop. "This year also, we will not be in a position to throw open the Mettur dam on the scheduled date for the kuruvai crop as the available utilisable storage as on June 4, 2004 is only about 4.5 tmcft at Mettur dam."

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