KARNATAKA TO RELEASE 0.8 TMC PER DAY TO TAMIL NADU
PM's CONCLUDING REMARKS AT THE
5TH EMERGENCY MEETING OF CAUVERY RIVER AUTHORITY
The 5th emergency meeting
of the Cauvery River Authority concluded here today with a decision
that Karnataka should release waters from its reservoirs to ensure
an inflow of 9000 cusecs amounting to 0.8 TMC per day at Mettur,
accounted on a weekly average basis for the months of September
and October, 2002. Tamil Nadu, in turn, will ensure proportionate
releases to Pondicherry. Following is the full text of the Prime
Minister’s concluding remarks at the meeting.
"The
basin States of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry and Kerala
have made their points. The situation is critical in the entire
basin. Tamil Nadu has projected its minimum requirement for the
coming two months of September and October, 2002 as 1.25 TMC per
day whereas Karnataka has expressed its inability to release and
ensure more than 8000 cusecs inflow at Mettur. Keeping in view
the inflows and storages in the four Karnataka reservoirs and
in Mettur as well as the requirements of the two States, Karnata
should release waters from its reservoirs to ensure an inflow
of 9000 cusecs amounting to 0.8 TMC per day at Mettur, accounted
on a weekly average basis for the months of September and October,
2002. Tamil Nadu in turn will ensure proportionate releases to
Pondicherry. I hope this arrangement will reasonably meet the
requirements of the basin States in the present critical situation
and is fair and just to all parties concerned."
