Cauvery Water Disputes
Progress
in Adjudication of the Dispute before the CWDT
The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) was
constituted by the Government of India on 2nd June 1990 to adjudicate the water
dispute regarding inter-state river Cauvery and the river valley thereof. The
Tribunal had also passed an Interim Order in June, 1991 and further
Clarificatory Orders on the Interim Order in April, 1992 and December, 1995.
The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal has submitted its reports and decision
under Section 5 (2) of Inter-State River Water Disputes Act, 1956 to Government
on 5th February, 2007. The party states and the Central Govt. have sought
clarification and guidelines under Section 5(3) of the Act. The terms of the
tribunal has been extended upto 2.11.08 as per provisions of ISRWD Act, 1956.
Further, the party states have also filled SLPs in the Hon’ble Supreme Court
against Cauvery tribunals report and Hon’ble Supreme Court has granted leave.
The matter was last heard by Hon’ble Supreme Court on 29.7.08 and the Hon’ble
court passed the order that the matter maybe listed before a three Judge bench
in Nov, 2008.
Monitoring
of the implementation of Interim order of CWDT :
Under the provisions of Section 6A of the ISWD
Act, 1956, the Central Government has notified a Scheme called Cauvery Water
(implementation of the Order of 1991 and all subsequent Related Orders of the
Tribunal) Scheme, 1998, consisting of Cauvery River Authority (CRA) and Cauvery
Monitoring Committee (CMC). The Cauvery River Authority consists of the Prime
Minister as Chairperson and Chief Ministers of the basin States as members. The
Monitoring Committee consists of Secretary, MOWR as Chairperson, Chief
Secretaries and Chief Engineers of the basin States as Members and Chairman,
Central Water Commission as Member. The Authority is required to give effect to
the implementation of the Interim Order dated 25th June 1991 of the Tribunal
and its related subsequent orders. So far CRA has held 6 meetings and CMC has
held 25 meetings. 25th meeting of CMC was held on 24.08.2010.
- Final order of Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal
- Report and Decision of Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal
- VOLUME - I: Background of Dispute and framing of Issues Download
- VOLUME - II: Agreements of 1892 And 1924 Download
- VOLUME - III: Availability of Water Download
- VOLUME - IV: Principles Of Apportionment & Assessment of Irrigated Areas In The States of Tamil Nadu And Karnataka Download
- VOLUME - V: Apportionment of The Waters of The Inter-State River Cauvery Download
source : India-wris wiki
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