Just like in the past, Mettur dam/water storage has been in the news this year also. Usually, during this month, there would be media reports of delta farmers facing water shortage, dried fields, and kuruvai taking a hit. But the situation today is different. The dam is brimming, more than its...
The Tamil Nadu Government has nominated two officers to the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) set up by the Centre in accordance with the Supreme Court directive to regulate sharing of Cauvery waters among Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry. TN chief secretary Girija...
The Cauvery issue has severely tested the idea that India shall be a law-governed nation. The system is supposed to work based on checks and balances imposed by constitutionally mandated institutions, but successive Karnataka governments have repeatedly stressed in public, and to a large extent...
