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 …
Mr Rao urged Ms Bharti to direct the Krishna River Management Board to constitute a supervising body with officials from both the states. Hyderabad: TS irrigation minister T. Harish Rao on Tuesday requested Union water resources minister Uma Bharti to address the concerns of the state in the proposed Apex …
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 …
As farmers and others hit the streets protesting the apex court directive to release 15,000 cusecs of water per day for next ten days to the neighbouring state, the Cauvery Hitarakshana Samithi (Cauvery protection committee) called for a bandh today in Mandya, the hotbed of Cauvery politics. Farmers and pro-Kannada …
The apex council was created by the AP Reorganisation Act. The council had not met even once despite both states asking for a meeting. Hyderabad: Union water resources minister Uma Bharati will hold the first apex council meeting with the Chief Ministers of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh this month. On …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of State of Tamil Nadu Vs State of Karnataka & Others dated 02/09/2016 regarding Cauvery river waters allocation among the States of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Union Territory of Pondicherry.
The state government is planning a mega project to meet drinking water needs of all the districts in the state. The scheme is estimated to cost Rs 45,000 crore. A proposal in this regard will be submitted to the Centre soon so that the state can go in for external …
Farmers associations have called for a state-wide protest on Tuesday calling on the state and Central governments to facilitate release of water from the Cauvery River for cultivation of Samba crops. Apart from rail and road roko, the farmers have called for participation from the public.
BHUBANESWAR: Even as the State Government has welcomed the Centre's proposal for a chief ministerial level talks to resolve the dispute over Mahanadi river water, Chhatisgarh's delay in providing information sought by the Odisha government on the construction activities undertaken by it has made mattersuncertain. The state government had requested …
'Water in KRS, Kabini, Harangi dams just enough to meet drinking needs' BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa urged the Supreme Court to send a team of experts and get a report on the availability of water in the KRS dam before issuing orders in the Cauvery River water-sharing dispute. …
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 …
Tamil Nadu on Monday approached the Supreme Court seeking direction to Karnataka to release 50.052 tmcft of Cauvery water from its reservoirs for samba cultivation. It accused Karnataka of diverting river water meant to be a “life-saver for Tamil Nadu farmers during distress years for undeclared projects in violation of …
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 …
CHENNAI: Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah's assertion on Monday that his government planned to build a reservoir at a cost of 5,912 crore in Mekedatu across the Cauvery is set to churn the political scene in Tamil Nadu. The farmers community in the Cauvery delta region will intensify the agitation against …
Independence Day was celebrated across Odisha with gaiety and enthusiasm amid tight security today as the state government showed optimism that efforts to resolve the Mahanadi river water issue would be successful and state's rights would not be compromised. "The government is making sincere effort to resolve Mahanadi river water …
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 …
CUTTACK: The row over river Mahanadi between Odisha and Chhattisgarh has reached the Orissa High Court which on Tuesday issued notices to the State Government and the Centre and directed them to file response within 10 days. Acting on a PIL writ petition filed by Barada Prasanna Patnaik, convener of …
Capital region in the floodplains of Krishna river is subject of argument. Vijayawada: The extent of the floodplains of Krishna River and Kondaveeti Vagu is again going to be a subject of arguments before National Green Tribunal (NGT), New Delhi, on August 10. The NGT is going to hear on …
It said the chairman of the Central Water Commission will continue to chair the reconstituted supervisory committee. The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Centre to have representatives from Telangana state and Andhra Pradesh in the “supervisory committee” to monitor the release of water from the Babli barrage by Maharashtra …
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 …
