Water to be released from Wednesday till September 27 to meet the water requirements of the State for its samba crop.
Supreme Court
New Delhi: Brushing aside strong resistance and objections from Karnataka, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Karnataka to release 6,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu from Wednesday till September 27 to meet the water requirements of the State for its samba crop.
A Bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Uday Lalit, after hearing the arguments put forward by the senior counsel Fali Nariman for Karnataka and senior advocate Shekar Naphade for Tamil Nadu, also directed the Centre to set up in a period of four weeks the Cauvery Management Board which will implement the directions of the Cauvery Water disputes Tribunal given in February 2007.
( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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