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The Supreme Court on 16th February, articulated its decision in the Kaveri debate, guiding Karnataka to discharge 177.25 thousand million cubics (TMC) feet of water to Tamil Nadu annually.
The Court likewise assigned 14.75 TMC ft of water to Karnataka well beyond the Cauvery Tribunal honour of 270 TMC ft distributed to the state. Of the 14.75 TMC, 4.75 TMC will be for Bengaluru just, to be utilized as drinking water.
Further, it maintained the Tribunal arrange to concede 30 TMC ft of water to Kerala and 7 TMC ft of water to Puducherry.
The judgment was given by the Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justices Amitava Roy and AM Khanwilkar. The Bench watched that water bodies are national resources and that nobody state could assert rights over them. It likewise guided states to demonstrate no inadequacy in consenting to its request.
The Karnataka-Tamil Nadu disagreement about the waters of the Cauvery stream has its underlying foundations in two assertions in 1892 and 1924 between the recent Madras Presidency and the Princely State of Mysore, one that outlasted its utility long prior, yet sowed the seeds of enduring discontent between the States.
After a few rounds of fizzled transactions, the Supreme Court coordinated the constitution of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, which gave its honour in 2007, permitting Tamil Nadu to draw from the supply a settled measure of water each day.
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Be that as it may, the question proceeded after both the States recorded a request of in the tribunal.
In 2016, Tamil Nadu again appealed to the Supreme Court as Karnataka presented that it had no more water to share from its supply. The Court passed a request on September 5 guiding Karnataka to discharge 15000 cusecs of water for every day for 10 days. This activated far-reaching challenges in Karnataka and their administration briskly moved an application looking for alteration of the request of September 5.
The review petition was heard on September 12, 2016, by Justices Dipak Misra and UU Lalit, who composed that Karnataka is required to release 12000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu consistently till September 20. On that date, the Court requested that the Center constitute a Cauvery Management Board (CMB), a specialist determination body inside a month. It likewise guided the Karnataka government to discharge 6000 cusecs of water for every day till September 30.
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