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 …
Kerala on Tuesday argued before the Supreme Court that the Mullaperiyar water agreement has become legally unsustainable after the state legislature passed the Kerala Irrigation and Water Conservation Act, 2003. The agreement was signed as a lease deed executed between the Government of the Maharaja of Travancore and Secretary of …
It is difficult to predict the situation next month, says minister. Water Resources Minister M B Patil on Wednesday said Karnataka will not be able to comply with the Cauvery River Water Dispute Tribunal (CRWDT) award to release about 90 tmc ft of water to Tamil Nadu between June and …
Draft legislation seeks to create mechanism for integrated planning, development and management of water resources of a river basin. Amid recurrent floods and ongoing water disputes between states, the government Monday floated a draft Bill which seeks to set up 12 river basin authorities in the country to settle discords …
Amid recurrent floods and ongoing water disputes between states, the government today floated a draft Bill which seeks to set up 12 river basin authorities in the country to settle discords and prevent deluge and pollution in inter-state rivers. The Draft River Basin Management Bill, which seeks to amend the …
Upping the ante against Karnataka for its refusal to release Cauvery waters, Tamil Nadu today decided to file a contempt petition in the Supreme Court besides seeking a direction for setting up two regulatory bodies to implement the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal's final award. Slamming Karnataka’s stand that the Supervisory …
This Scheme may be called the Cauvery Water (Implementation of the Order of 2007) Scheme, 2013. It shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette. It is purely a temporary measure until a permanent Scheme namely the Cauvery Management Board as recommended by the …
Now that the Attorney General has opined that Punjab cannot object to it, the Jammu and Kashmir government is planning to go ahead with the construction of the Ravi canal from Basantpur up to the inflow of the Ranjit Sagar Dam reservoir to lift water for irrigating 1.33 lakh acres …
According to the 1892 Madras-Mysore agreement, Karnataka cannot take up any work without Tamil Nadu's consent The Tamil Nadu government on Monday said it will move Supreme Court against neighbouring Karnataka over the river Pennaiyar dispute. PWD Minister K V Ramalingam told Tamil Nadu Assembly that Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa …
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today took exception to his Haryana counterpart Bhupinder Singh Hooda's offer to resolve the contentious river waters issue with Punjab amicably through parleys. Badal said the resolution of the dispute was not in the hands of Hooda alone. “Hooda has neither any mandate nor the …
Holding out an olive branch to Punjab in the ongoing inter-state waters dispute, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today offered to settle it by sitting across the table with his Punjab counterpart, provided Haryana is given its due share. But Hooda was not as considerate towards the Opposition and …
The state delegation led by chief minister Jagadish Shettar urged prime minister Manmohan Singh not to constitute the Cauvery Management Board. "The proposed board will adversely affect the absolute authority of Karnataka to regulate its reservoirs derived from Entry-17 of the state list. This would be an unjust and unconstitutional …
Order of Cauvery water disputes tribunal in Civil Miscellaneous Petition Nos. 4, 5 and 9 of 1990 in the matter of (water dispute amongst the state government of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Union Territory of Pondicherry, viz dispute regarding the inter-state river cauvery and the river valley thereof).
Andhra Pradesh objects to Karnataka constructing the Paragodu barrage on a tributary of the Krishna river, but Karnataka denies violating any inter-State water-sharing agreement. Controversy over the sharing of river waters has erupted yet again, this time between Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh over a clutch of irrigation and drinking water …
Haryana and Punjab have long been at loggerheads over the sharing of river waters. The issue has been brought up time and again but political compulsions do not allow either of the states to go ahead and resolve the matter. The SYL canal has time and again hampered relations between …
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed Karnataka to release 2.44 tmc of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, though the Jayalalithaa government had demanded 12 tmc water ostensibly to save its standing crop. A bench of Justices R M Lodha, J Chelameswar and Madan B Lokur based its order on the …
Upset at delay, judge says: “Don’t abdicate your responsibility. Sorry, this is not the way the government should function” The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre to notify the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) dated February 5, 2007. It rapped the government for abdicating its …
The Centre on Monday came in the line of fire of the Supreme Court for failing to notify the 2007 Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal (CWDT) award despite an assurance given to the court. Censuring the government for "flouting" the statute by failing to publish the award for more than five …
The Supreme Court today directed Karnataka to furnish all the information on the quantum of Cauvery river water shared by it to Tamil Nadu since 1992 and said that out of box thinking is required on the part of States to sort out the dispute. A Bench consisting of justices …
Although inter-State water disputes and arbitration with neighbouring Pakistan over the Kishenganga hydro-electric project in Jammu & Kashmir dominated the functioning of the Union Water Resources Ministry in 2012, it is expected that in the New Year the Government will focus on giving a push to water sector reforms. With …
The draft policy guidelines are basically for sharing / distribution of waters of inter -State rivers amongst the States and Union Territories of India and are recommendatory. It has no relevance or applicability in regard to international sharing/ distribution of waters of international basins in which India is a co-basin …
