Center submits draft Cauvery management scheme for smooth water distribution
The Center today submitted the draft Cauvery management scheme, to ensure smooth distribution of water between Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Puducherry, before the Supreme Court for its perusal and approval. A bench, comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud, took on record the draft scheme submitted by the Union Water Resource secretary and said it would peruse it.
Judges to examine scheme to ascertain its consonance with judgment
"We need to examine whether the said scheme is in consonance with our judgment," the SC bench said, adding that it would consider and approve the scheme on May 16. The apex court said that it will not go into "correctness of the scheme" and rather confine itself to whether the scheme was in consonance with its February 16 judgment.
Center in contempt of verdict by not framing CMS: SC
The SC had on May 8 summoned the secretary of the Union Water Resources Ministry. The bench asked the secretary to appear before it today with the draft scheme and warned the Center that it was in "sheer contempt" of the February 16 verdict by not framing the Cauvery management scheme (CMS) on river water sharing between the four southern riparian states till now.
SC raised share of Cauvery water for Karnataka
SC on February 16 asked Center to formulate a scheme to ensure compliance with its judgment on decades-old Cauvery dispute. It raised 270 tmcft share of Cauvery water for Karnataka by 14.75 tmcft and reduced Tamil Nadu's share, compensating it by allowing extraction of 10 tmcft groundwater from the river basin, saying the issue of drinking-water has to be placed on a "higher pedestal".
