The Union government notified Cauvery Water (Implementation of the
Order of 2007) Scheme, 2013 to implement the final award of the Cauvery
Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT), 2007. Under the scheme, a supervisory
committee will be formed as notified by the ministry of Water Resources.
The committee will be headed by the Water Resources Secretary, while
Chief Secretaries of the Cauvery basin States/Union Territory
(Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Kerala) will be the members. The
Central Water Commission (CWC) chairman will also be a member and the
CWC's chief engineer will be the Member-Secretary. The headquarters of
the committee will be in New Delhi.
The scheme will be in place till the Cauvery Management Board is
constituted as mentioned in the award. The chairman of the Committee may
apply to the Supreme Court for appropriate directions with notices to
other States if he thinks it is necessary. As per the notification of
the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT), 2007 in
February 2013, the Cauvery River Authority (CRA), chaired by the Prime
Minister, and the Cauvery Monitoring Committee (CMC), headed by the
Water Resources Secretary are no longer functioning.
Both committees were formed as per the directives of the Supreme
Court to monitor the implementation of the interim orders of the
tribunal.
Supreme Court of India in its interim order on 10 May 2013 had
directed the union government to constitute a supervisory committee for
implementation of the final order of the CWDT dated 5 February 5, 2007
as notified on 19 February 2013.
The Tribunal which included Chairman Justice N.P. Singh and members
N.S. Rao and Sudhir Narain was set up in 1990. It had determined the
total availability of water in the Cauvery basin at 740 thousand million
cubic (TMC) feet at the Lower Coleroon Anicut site in a Unanimous award
in February 2007. In the final order the Tribunal gave Tamil Nadu 419
TMC of water (as against the demand of 562 TMC); Karnataka 270 TMC (as
against its demand of 465 TMC); Kerala 30 TMC and Puducherry 7 TMC. It
had reserved 10 TMC for environmental protection.
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