NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu government on Monday filed its written submission before the Supreme Court in the Cauvery water disputes case, challenging the award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal. The apex court is hearing a plea on whether the appeals by both Tamil Nadu and Karnataka governments are maintainable or not.
In its objections, TN challenged the report of the high level technical committee, which stated that there was water scarcity in both states and said that the committee should have at least recommended the amount of water required for release.
The government’s submission is yet to be taken on record and the SC registry has asked the counsel to mention it before the Bench hearing the case first.The State also cited the calculation done by the technical committee, which stated in its report that Karnataka would be receiving 81 tmc of water by May 2017, of which Karnataka need just 48 tmc. So the remaining 41 tmc can easily be released to the State.
TN also asked the court to direct Karnataka to release the remaining amount of water, as on October 13.
Earlier, the court granted the Centre time till Wednesday to file its written submissions in the water sharing case. The Supreme Court had last week reserved orders on whether the appeal against the CWDT award was maintainable or not.
During the hearing, the Centre had argued that the appeal was not maintainable and stated that once published, the CWDT’s order was final Karnataka had, however, contended that the appeal must be heard. It said that it had filed the appeal against the CWDT award, before the same was published. Hence the special leave petition is maintainable.
During the last hearing, the court had directed Karnataka to release 2,000 cusecs of water daily to Tamil till maintainability of the appeals filed by Karnataka and Tamil Nadu is decided.