Cauvery Supervisory Committee to review water position on June12

The first meeting of the Cauvery Supervisory Committee decided to review the position of storage levels, corresponding to demands and the onset of the south-west monsoon in relation to Tamil Nadu's demand for water allocation for the first 10 days in June, as stipulated in the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) award.

Following directions from the Supreme Court, the centre had constituted the supervisory committee as a pro tem measure to oversee the release of Cauvery water to the basin states as per the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal award. The Cauvery Water panel has the mandate to oversee the implementation of the final order of the CWDT of February 5 07.

Yesterday 's meeting also took place in the backdrop of Tamil Nadu filing a suit in the Supreme Court, seeking about 2500 crore rupees in damages for crop losses owing to alleged non-release of the stipulated amount of Cauvery water by Karnataka under the interim award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal.

The governments of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu agreed to the proposal of Central Water Commission for installation of automatic data observation and data transmission system in all the reservoirs.

Keeping in mind the poor storage and impending monsoon in Karnataka , Chairman of the Committee Dr SK Sarkar decided that the position regarding storages and allocation will be reviewed in the next meeting likely to be held on June 12. Chief Secretaries of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Puducherry and Kerala took part in the meeting.