The Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu will have nearly 40,000 stores shuttered on Wednesday in protest of the Cauvery water dispute. The Karnataka government has refused to provide Tamil Nadu access to its water, thus the Cauvery Basic Protection Coalition is holding the blockade on its behalf.
A resolution requesting the Union government to instruct Karnataka to release Cauvery water in accordance with the Cauvery Water Management Authority’s instructions was accepted by the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Monday. The motion has received unanimous approval in favour.
In order to get the Karnataka government to release the Cauvery Water, the Cauvery Delta Protection Movement staged a demonstration in front of the Tamil Nadu head post office.
In order to resolve the conflict between the two southern states over the Cauvery water issue, the demonstrators are calling on the Central government to step in.
The demonstration was attended by about 300 cadres from several actors associations. They raised slogans demanding the release of water from Karnataka.
Know about Cauvery Water dispute
The Cauvery River, which passes through the states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and the Union Territory of Puducherry in southern India, has long been at the center of a bitter water dispute. The Cauvery water dispute is a long disagreement that has its roots in previous agreements and various water-related demands.
Karnataka’s yearly water releases were decreased from 192 TMC (Thousand Million Cubic Feet) to 177.25 TMC as a result of the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision on February 16, 2018. The amount of water allotted to Tamil Nadu was also reduced as a result of this judgement.
The Cauvery Water Management Authority was established by the Indian government on June 1, 2018, in accordance with the court’s instructions, to oversee the execution of the ruling.
In order to force Karnataka to promptly release 24,000 cubic feet per second (cusecs) of water from its reservoirs, the Tamil Nadu government petitioned the Supreme Court on August 14. Tamil Nadu requested the Court instruct Karnataka to give 36.76 TMC of water as specified for September 2023 by the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal’s (CWDT) final judgement from 2007.
Karnataka said that inadequate water had entered its reservoirs as a result of a decline in rainfall in the Cauvery watershed basin, which also includes sections of Kerala.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah emphasized that historically, Karnataka had freely given water to Tamil Nadu whenever there was excess water in the reservoirs. Karnataka, however, is unable to carry out this commitment this year due to unfavourable circumstances.
According to the prior guideline given by the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee on September 12, the Cauvery Water Management Authority reiterated on September 18 that Karnataka must continue to release 5,000 cusecs (cubic feet per second) of water to Tamil Nadu for a period of 15 days.
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