Shettar also said the tribunal's prescription of monthly accounting of the quota on proportionate water sharing formula under distress situation without assessing the ground realities had been of great concern.

Moreover, the Cauvery River Authority was yet to finalise the distress sharing formula. Pending this, issuing final notification is going to have a great bearing on the Cauvery water dispute, he argued. Elaborating Karnataka's concerns, Shettar said as against the state's claim of 465 TMC only 270 TMC of water had been allocated by the tribunal. Leader of Opposition in Karnataka Assembly, Siddaramaiah sought to blame the state government vis-a-vis the notification, alleging that it gave an undertaking in the apex court that it had no objection for the notification of the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal.