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Environment Ministry panel on hydro projects violating SC order: TN CM
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SME Times News Bureau | 10 Jul, 2019
Tamil Nadu Chief Minsiter K. Palaniswami on Wednesday told Union
Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar that the Expert Appraisal
Committee for River Valley and Hydro Electric Projects under his
ministry is violating the final order of the Cauvery Water Disputes
Tribunal and the Supreme Court judgement.
In a letter to
Javadekar, the text of which was released to the media, Palaniswami said
the Expert Appraisal Committee for River Valley and Hydro Electric
Projects functioning under the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and
Climate Change has included Karnataka's proposal for grant of fresh
Terms of Reference to the Mekedatu Balancing Reservoir and Drinking
Water Project in its meeting scheduled to be held on July 19, 2019.
"The
action of the Committee to include the proposal of Karnataka for
discussion in the meeting is a violation of the Notified Final Order of
the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal and the judgment of the Honorable
Supreme Court," Palaniswami said.
Pointing out Tamil Nadu's
opposition to the proposed project, Palaniswami said Karnataka has not
obtained the prior concurrence of Tamil Nadu and of other Cauvery river
basin states.
"Cauvery basin being a deficit basin, construction
of Mekedatu or any project in any place by upper riparian State will
drastically affect the lower riparian State in getting its due share of
water," Palaniswami said.
"The Government of Tamil Nadu has filed
an Interlocutory Application before the Supreme Court against the
proposal of Karnataka for constructing a reservoir and also a Contempt
Petition against all concerned and the matter is pending in the Supreme
Court," he added.
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister requested
Javadekar to instruct his ministry to issue instructions to the Expert
Appraisal Committee for River Valley and Hydro Electric Projects to
withdraw the subject of grant of fresh Terms of Reference to Karnataka
for Mekedatu Balancing Reservoir and Drinking Water Project from the
Agenda for the 25th meeting of the Committee to be held on on July 19.
He
also requested that the Committee be directed to desist from
entertaining the Karnataka's proposal in future and the present one be
rejected and returned to Karnataka.
In a similar letter to the
Union Jal Sakthi Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, the Chief Minister
has requested the former to take up the matter with the Environment
Ministry.
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