CAUVERY MONITORING COMMITTEE DISCUSS
DISTRESS WATER SHARING FORMULA
The 18th
(Emergency) meeting of the Monitoring Committee under Cauvery
River Authority, was held here today under the chairmanship of
Shri A.K.Goswami, Secretary, Water Resources.
The committee discussed
the position of inflows into the Karnataka reservoirs and Mettur
reservoir during the current water year and observed that the
water year 2003-04 has been so far the third drought year in the
succession and the distress situation needs to be shared between
the party States, keeping in view the interest of farmers of all
the States. The Committee reviewed the progress of arriving at
a distress sharing formula by consensus and expressed its satisfaction
over the narrowing down of the differences by the Sub-Group of
Technical Experts during its two meetings held on 24th
June 2003 and 7th July 2003. It was decided that the
Sub-Group of Technical Experts will hold another meeting further
to evolve the consensus within a week's time so that a final decision
could be taken during the next Cauvery Monitoring Committee meeting
proposed to be held on 25th August 2003.
Chief Secretaries
of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Pondichery and Chief Engineer, Government
of Kerala, participated in the meeting.
