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Prime Minister holds meeting on Cauvery

By Gargi Parsai

NEW DELHI, JUNE 7. The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, tonight held a meeting with the Minister of Water Resources, Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi, and senior officials of the Union Cabinet and the Law Ministry to discuss the Cauvery water dispute and the Sutlej-Yamuna link canal issue.

The two subjects have assumed significance as an all-party delegation of Members of Parliament from Tamil Nadu is meeting the Prime Minister tomorrow morning to seek Cauvery water for the State as per an interim award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal. At the same time, the Government is faced with the Supreme Court order on the Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal. The apex court has asked the Centre to complete construction of the canal which will carry waters to Haryana. Punjab had challenged the apportionment of the waters to Haryana and declined to construct the canal on its side despite the fact that it is financed by the Centre.

The Centre has to decide on convening a meeting of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA), which is chaired by the Prime Minister, to facilitate implementation of the interim award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal which enjoins Karnataka to ensure 205 thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) of water at Mettur in Tamil Nadu in a water year beginning June. Before that an official-level meeting of the Cauvery Monitoring Committee (CMC) has to be convened by the Water Resources Secretary.

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