‘Ensure Cauvery panel takes steps for equitable distribution’

It is all the more important in view of the ongoing ‘kuruvai’ cultivation: panel

The Coordination Committee of All Farmers’ Associations in Tamil Nadu has called upon the State government to insist upon the Cauvery Water Management Authority to ensure the release of water in Cauvery from the Karnataka dams as per the monthly quota endorsed by the Supreme Court. Submitting a memorandum to Chief Minister M. K. Stalin through the Additional Chief Secretary, Public Works Department, Sandeep Saxena in Tiruvarur on Friday, the Committee president, P. R. Pandian, urged the Tamil Nadu government to initiate necessary steps for the early formation of the ‘Supervising Committee’ by the CWMA so that the Authority performs its duty of monitoring the inflows into the dams in the upper riparian State and distribute the available water between the beneficiary States as per the Supreme Court directions. This initiative becomes all the more important in view of the ongoing ‘kuruvai’ cultivation for which the Tamil Nadu government had announced that the Mettur dam would be opened for irrigation on the customary date of June 12. Hence, the State government should insist the Authority release the monthly quota of water to be released in Cauvery river as per the Apex Court order, he added.