The meeting will be held at 11 am on 16 July, 2024 at the state secretariat in Chennai, under the leadership of Minister for Water Resources Duraimurugan.
Published Jul 15, 2024 | 2:57 PM ⚊ Updated Jul 15, 2024 | 2:57 PM
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday, 15 July, condemned neighbouring Karnataka for not releasing full water.
He also announced an all-party meeting on Tuesday, 16 July, to decide the future course of action in the inter-state river dispute.
As on 15 July 2024, while the total storage in the four main dams of Karnataka is 75.586 TMC ft, the water level in Tamil Nadu’s Mettur reservoir is a mere 13.808 TMC ft, he said in a statement in Chennai.
Moreover, as per the IMD’s forecast, there is scope for adequate rainfall. Hence, Karnataka declining to release water according to the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee’s (CWRC) directive is a betrayal of Tamil Nadu’s farmers, Stalin said, adding the state will never accept it.
Stalin said he had convened a meeting of floor leaders of parties represented in the state Assembly to deliberate on the steps to be taken to secure Cauvery water.
The meeting will be held at 11 am on 16 July, 2024 at the state secretariat in Chennai, under the leadership of Minister for Water Resources Duraimurugan.
Also, the views of legal experts will be obtained and the next course of action to be pursued will be decided by the government.
On Sunday, 14 July, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had said the state government was ready to release 8,000 cusecs of water from the Cauvery River every day to Tamil Nadu instead of the one TMC ft till the end of this month, as directed by the CWRC.
There is only 63 percent water in the Cauvery basin dams and in this situation, the state was not in a position to release one TMC water each day, Siddaramiah told reporters in Bengaluru.
Siddarmaaiah said all the parties in Karnataka were unanimous that they should appeal to the CWMA stating that releasing one TMC water was not possible.
(With PTI inputs)
