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J. Venkatesan
New Delhi: The Tamil Nadu Government has filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to restrain Karnataka from taking up, executing or commissioning new check dams or irrigation works and/or lift irrigation schemes creating ayacut. In its appeal challenging the final award of the Cavuery Water Disputes Tribunal, Tamil Nadu alleged that ever since the Tribunal gave its interim award in June 1991, Karnataka had not ensured the monthly quantity of inflow prescribed in the Mettur reservoir, especially from June to August. If at all the annual quantum of 205 tmcft of water was realised at Mettur some years, it was only as a result of flood surpluses, which Karnataka could not hold in its reservoirs. The application was filed after the Tribunal declined to take up the matter in view of the pendency of appeals in the Supreme Court. It said that for the current irrigation season (2007-08), the reservoir could not be thrown open for irrigation on the usual date of June 12 due to inadequate storage. Reservoirs in Karnataka started surplussing from June last week and the Mettur reservoir received good inflows from July first week. Mandya district farmers of Karnataka objected to the release of water from Krishna Raja Sagar, stating that the reservoir was not full and started an agitation. Water was released from the KRS only after the reservoir reached full level. As a result, Tamil Nadu could open the Mettur reservoir only on July 18 and it had to forego large extent of kuruvai crop and go in only for a single long-term samba crop from August. Tamil Nadu said that Karnataka had taken up construction of check dams, lift irrigation schemes and desilting of tanks, leading to additional storage in its reservoirs, thereby denying water legally and legitimately due to Tamil Nadu. The application said that the execution or the commissioning of the various projects and the likely diversion of Cauvery inflows would cause irreparable hardship and injury and serious prejudice to the downstream Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
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