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 …
Vehicles bearing TN registration torched; Sec 144 clamped Tension prevailed in parts of the city, over the Cauvery River water issue. The agitators torched vehicles bearing Tamil Nadu registration number, ransacked shops run by traders from Tamil Nadu and tore Tamil movie posters. The protestors torched a tourists’ car, a …
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddharamaiah has requested a meeting with his Goa counterpart Laxmikant Parsekar this month to work out an amicable out-of-court solution to the Mahadayi water dispute between the two States. In a letter to Mr. Parsekar, Mr. Siddharamaiah has offered to hold the first round of talks in …
Security beefed up as farmers criticise order by Supreme Court Amid dissent by the Opposition parties and serious opposition from farmers, the Karnataka Government on Tuesday decided to release 15,000 cusecs of water a day to Tamil Nadu as per the Supreme Court’s directive. The State has also decided to …
With Tamil Nadu moving the Supreme Court seeking release of Cauvery waters, the Congress government in Karnataka, which is facing deficient rainfall in the catchment areas, has called an all-party meeting on Saturday in Bengaluru to decide the next course of action. Karnataka Water Resources Minister M.B. Patil told a …
CHENNAI: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday announced that in a day or two, the State government would move the Supreme Court to get the Cauvery water due to the State by filing an interim petition. She said Karnataka had been releasing water for irrigation within the State as it …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Inter-State River Water Sharing Disputes, 11/08/2016. On the basis of complaints made by the State Governments, the Central Government has, so far, set up 08 tribunals to settle water disputes among the States under the inter-state river water disputes (ISRWD) Act, 1956. The present …
Panaji: Karnataka's gambit to lift 7TMC ft water from Mhadei river at an interim stage failed before the Mhadei Water Disputes Tribunal (MWDT) as its proposal had several flaws. Non compliance of assurance given by it earlier to the Supreme Court to take environmental permissions for the projects to lift …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Interlinking of Rivers, 21/07/2016. The inter-basin transfer of water, through interlinking of rivers (ILR), is considered to be essential for addressing the twin problems of water scarcity and floods. Under the National Perspective Plan (NPP) for ILR prepared by this Ministry, 30 links (16 …
Punjab govt on Monday claimed in Supreme Court that it was being “unfairly treated” on the issue of water sharing and sought the setting up of a fresh tribunal to resolve its disputes on the Satluj-Yamuna Link Canal with other States. “Throughout the course of history, it is Punjab which …
Asserting that Punjab’s right to waters of its rivers should be “safeguarded”, Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki on Tuesday appealed the Centre to remove “discrimination” in sharing it with neighbouring States. Noting that “injustice and discrimination” was meted out to Punjab over its river waters, he said the people of the …
NEW DELHI: Differences over water sharing between two BJP-ruled states Gujarat and Maharashtra continue to block the Centre's ambitious plan to go ahead with its two river-linking projects — Damanganga-Pinjal and ParTapi-Narmada. Though the detailed project reports (DPRs) of these river links had been submitted to the Centre in August …
Karnataka had sought an amicable solution to the dispute; Goa prefers dispute to be resolved by Water Disputes Tribunal PANJIM: The State government has rejected Karnataka’s proposal to have an out of court settlement of Mhadei river water dispute between the two states and said the dispute should be resolved …
State terms Telangana's application delaying tactics A view of River Krishna near Almatti dam in Bagalkot district. The Supreme Court on Thursday clarified that it would not call for records to examine the reasons for the Centre's stand in the Krishna water dispute between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The Centre …
Oommen Chandy to seek intervention of Narendra Modi and Uma Bharti on the dam issue As heavy rain brought the water level in the Mullaperiyar dam closer to the permissible limit of 142 feet, the Kerala government told the Assembly on Tuesday that it was preparing to move the Supreme …
The Karnataka government has told the Supreme Court that Tamil Nadu’s demand for the release of 45.32 tmcft of Cauvery water proceeds from a wholly erroneous premise that the water year of 2015-16 in the Cauvery basin is a “normal year” and not a “distress year”. Objecting to Tamil Nadu’s …
It is regrettable that politicians in Karnataka are trying to consolidate their position by displaying a partisan attitude in the Cauvery issue, Union Minister of State for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways Pon Radhakrishnan said here on Thursday. Talking to reporters, he said Tamil Nadu was not demanding excess water …
Claiming before the Supreme Court that the right to access water is a human rights issue, the Telangana government on Wednesday sought fresh allocation of the disputed waters of the Krishna river. In a hearing before a Bench led by Justice Dipak Misra, the State said previous dispute proceedings and …
Siddaramaiah to lead panel to Delhi to meet Prime Minister today. Leaders of all parties in Karnataka, who met on Sunday ahead of a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, resolved to seek his intervention for an out-of-court settlement of the Mahadayi inter-State water dispute. Speaking to reporters …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on inter-state river water sharing disputes, 06/08/2015. On the complaint made by the State Governments, the Central Government has, so far, set up 08 Tribunals to settle water disputes among the States under the Inter-State River Water Disputes (ISRWD) Act, 1956. The present status of …
PANJIM: The Mhadei Water Disputes Tribunal on Wednesday directed Goa, Maharashtra and Karnataka to produce the hydrology-water surface plan of River Mhadei, and adjourned the hearing to July 17. When the matter came up before the tribunal Wednesday morning, the Goa government said that if the plan to build dam …
