Cauvery order unfair: Karnataka complains to PM

December 08, 2012 18:03

Describing as "unfair and highly disadvantageous" to Karnataka the Cauvery Monitoring Committee's directive to release 12 tmcft of water to Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar today urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to reject it.

In a letter to Singh, Shettar said, "The recommendations of the CMC should be rejected by you at the earliest to save the standing crops in Karnataka."

He also said the order may be kept in abeyance. The CMC order "is unfair and highly disadvantageous to Karnataka", he said.

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