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Published: Friday, June 17, 2022, 17: 09 [IST]
Bengaluru, Jun 17: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday held dialogue over the Mekedatu project with Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.
Sooner than the meeting the CM stated, “The meeting with Union Jal Shakti Minister is in the backdrop of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s letter (to PM) regarding Mekedatu. I’m here to attach strain- that the matter which is earlier than the Cauvery Water Management Authority must be made up our minds upon at the earliest,”
Karnataka CM Bommai meets Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Talking to newshounds in New Delhi, he stated that Tamil Nadu has filed a miscellaneous software program earlier than the Supreme Court docket and once the admire is served to the snarl, the federal government will answer to it. “It (Mekedatu) is already in the (CWMA meeting) agenda, I will build strain that it must be taken up and a final resolution be taken regarding the project,” he added.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Ok Stalin on Monday sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention to restrain the CWMA from discussing the project proposal in its meeting. Stalin, in a letter to the PM, had stated that the scope of the functioning of the CWMA is miniature to implementing the Supreme Court docket’s verdict on the Cauvery topic and it will’t enjoy into consideration some other topic.
He had moreover requested the Prime Minister to teach the Jal Shakti Ministry to repeat the CWMA’s chairman to desist from taking on any dialogue on the Mekedatu project, until the concerns are heard and made up our minds by the Supreme Court docket. The Tamil Nadu government final week moved the Supreme Court docket attempting to come by a direction to the CWMA restraining any dialogue on the project at its meeting. Terming the neighbouring snarl’s transfer as a “political stunt”, Bommai had now no longer too long ago stated, it’s moreover “unlawful” and “in opposition to the federal system”, and its inquire of does now no longer personal any “locus standi.”
Mekedatu is a multi-reason (spirited water and energy) project proposed by Karnataka, which involves constructing a balancing reservoir attain Kanakapura in Ramanagara district. Tamil Nadu has been opposing the project, elevating apprehensions that the snarl would be affected if the project takes form. The project, once accomplished, is aimed at ensuring spirited water to Bengaluru and neighbouring areas (4.75 TMC) and moreover can generate 400 MW energy, and the estimated designate of the project is Rs 9,000 crore. PTI
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Memoir first revealed: Friday, June 17, 2022, 17: 09 [IST]