Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Bharatiya Kisan Union Purwa through its Secretary Vs Union of India Ministry of Jal Shakti & Others dated 07/03/2025. The grievance of the applicant is that railway bridge between Daraganj and Jhunsi is being constructed on the flood plains of …
Delhi—a city and union territory of India containing the country’s capital, New Delhi—continues to grow in population, posing challenges to civic agencies in the provision of citizens’ essential needs. This brief examines the experience of Delhi’s water agency in obtaining raw water, amid the growing gap in supply and demand …
The volume is a collection of essays and cases on water federalism. The contributors are a well-known group of academics, practitioners, and civil society actors. Commissioned by the Hanns Siedel Foundation in collaboration with Asian Confluence, the book makes a conscious effort to go beyond the dominant lens of interstate …
Bill to set up single tribunal to settle inter-state water disputes in Lok Sabha. A bill to help adjudicate disputes relating to waters of inter-State rivers and river valleys at a faster pace was introduced in Lok Sabha on 25 July, 2019 amid protests by opposition parties which said states …
Also opposes DJB’s pleas regarding water shortage in Capital The Haryana government has claimed that the Delhi High Court does not have the jurisdiction to decide on the Yamuna water-sharing dispute between it and Delhi. Haryana said that the Upper River Yamuna Board is the appropriate body to decide the …
The draft River Basin Management Bill proposes optimum development of inter-State rivers by facilitating inter-State coordination ensuring scientific planning of land and water resources taking basin/sub-basin as unit with unified perspectives of water in all its forms (including soil moisture, ground and surface water) and ensuring comprehensive and balanced development …
Centre’s submission to court does not talk of Bhakra Beas Management Board, which was recommended by Cauvery Tribunal The draft Cauvery Water Management Scheme, as prepared by the Union government and submitted to the Supreme Court on Monday, is essentially based on the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal’s final order of …
The Centre on Tuesday handed over reference of the Mahanadi water dispute to the chairman of Mahanadi Water Disputes Tribunal, Justice A M Khanwilkar. The Tribunal was constituted on 12 March appointing Justice Khanwilkar as chairman and Justice Ravi Ranjan and Justice Indermeet Kaur Kochhar as its members. The Secretary …
Adding yet another dimension to the decades-old water sharing dispute between Punjab and non-riparian states including Haryana and Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Wednesday asserted that his government would seek royalty from the neighbouring states. Sending alarm bells ringing to the two warring states of Punjab …
Trichy: Members of Desiya Thenninthiya Nathigal Inaippu Vivasayigal Sangam headed by its state president P Ayyakkannu staged a novel protest by lying in a crematorium alongside a burning pyre demanding to constitute Cauvery Management Board here on Tuesday. Around 10 members of the farmer’s association led by P Ayyakkannu arrived …
CHENNAI: In a bid to sustain pressure on the Centre over setting up the Cauvery Management Board (CMB), opposition parties led by the DMK, at an all-party meeting in Chennai on Sunday, resolved to call for a statewide bandh on April 5. The parties, which decided to block trains on …
CHENNAI: The six-week deadline set by the Supreme Court for forming the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) came to an end on Thursday even as farmers and the public in Tamil Nadu were agitated over the Centre’s failure to honour the apex court’s verdict. Significantly, the Centre maintained a stoic silence …
CHENNAI: As the Supreme Court deadline to the Centre to put in place a 'scheme' to implement the award of the Cauvery river water tribunal comes to an end on Friday, the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre, prompted by the law ministry, may file a petition in the SC …
What is the background to the dispute and, going beyond the political rhetoric in both states, who are the parties actually affected by it? In line with the Supreme Court’s order in January, the Ministry of Water Resources last week notified the setting up of a Tribunal to resolve the …
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government’s attempts to get immediate release of 15tmcft of Cauvery water did not yield a positive response from the Centre, with the ministry of water resources pointing to the proposed setting up of Cauvery Management Board in six weeks going by the Supreme Court verdict. Of …
PANJIM: Karnataka on Monday claimed before the Mhadei Water Dispute Tribunal that no prejudice would be caused to Goa if it diverts water from the Mhadei river basin to the Malaprabha basin and therefore Goa’s case should be dismissed Final arguments before the Tribunal continued on Monday with Maharashtra continuing …
In a written submission to Mahadayi Water Dispute Tribunal, Karnataka also stated that Goa’s “allegations that the State of Karnataka has changed the nature of the flow of Mahadayi is ridiculous and false”. Terming the Goa Water Resources Minister’s comments on the Mahadayi river water dispute as “fascist” and “divisive”, …
Accuses K'taka of resuming Kalasa canal work violating SC order Panaji: The Goa government will file a contempt petition before the Supreme Court and the Mahadayi Water Dispute Tribunal against Karnataka for allegedly resuming work on a canal of a Mahadayi tributary at Kanakumbi in Belagavi district "in violation" of …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Inter-state water disputes for sharing of river water, 18/12/2017. The Parliament has enacted Inter-State River Water Disputes (ISRWD) Act, 1956 for adjudication of disputes relating to waters of inter-State rivers and river valley thereof. When any request under the said Act is received from …
In this paper, examine, critically, interstate water disputes in India for a comprehensive understanding of their anatomy – the making of disputes. Pursue some fundamental questions: Why do interstate water disputes emerge and recur? What factors contribute to their (re)making? What are the politics in their (re)making, to what end, …
Gets six more weeks to mediate between Punjab, Haryana to resolve canal water issue The Centre today told the Supreme Court that there was a possibility of a settlement between Punjab and Haryana over the vexed Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) Canal issue — a bone of contention between the two states. …
