CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary Girija Vaidyanathan and PWD Secretary S K Prabhakar will attend a consultative meeting called by the Centre in New Delhi on Friday to discuss the proposal for setting up a mechanism to implement the Supreme Court judgement on Cauvery water.
The decision to send Prabhakar along with Vaidyanathan was taken by Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday. Immediately after arriving at the decision, Palaniswami called up Opposition Leader M K Stalin to convey Tamil Nadu’s decision to attend the meeting.
The meeting to be chaired by Union Water Resources Secretary Upendra Prasad Singh has been convened to discuss the recent Supreme Court judgment on sharing of the Cauvery water. Chief Secretaries from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Puducherry and Kerala will attend the meeting. Sources also said a meeting of chief ministers of the four Cauvery states will be convened soon.
