Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal award to be notified by Dec-end

December 07, 2012 19:58

After nearly six years, the final award of the Cauvery Waters Dispute Tribunal will be notified by the end of this month, states sharing the disputed Cauvery river waters were informed on Friday.

At a meeting of the Cauvery Monitoring Committee (CMC) here, Secretary Water Resources D V Singh -- who chairs the panel -- told representatives of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry that steps "shall" be taken to notify the final award of the tribunal at the earliest, "but not later than the end of this month."

The meeting of the CMC was convened today to give an interim order on water sharing between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

Once a gazette notification is issued, institutions like the Cauvery River Authority(CRA) chaired by the Prime Minister and the CMC will cease to exist.

The Tribunal, comprising chairman Justice N P Singh and members N S Rao and Sudhir Narain, in a unanimous award in February, 2007 had determined the total availability of water in the Cauvery basin at 740 thousand million cubic (TMC) feet at the Lower Coleroon Anicut site.

The proceedings of the Tribunal, set up in June, 1990, went on for more than 16 years.

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