JOIN USThe Supreme Court on Monday again refused to hear a plea of the Tamil Nadu government seeking a direction to the Karnataka Government restraining it from drawing extra water from Cauvery basin reservoirs.
A bench of Justices D K Jain and A R Dave told C S Vaidyanathan, counsel for the Tamil Nadu government, to mention the matter again on Friday for hearing the application.
He wanted the court to take up the interim application for passing orders or directions.
The Tamil Nadu government had, on March 23, sought a direction to restrain Karnataka from resorting to summer irrigation or drawing water from the four main reservoirs such as Krishnarajasagar, Kabini, Hemavathy and Harangi during summer for irrigation.
The application was first mentioned on April 13, but the court had then told the Tamil Nadu government's counsel to mention it again on April 23.
The application had contended that Karnataka had already drawn 29 tmc feet of water and if it continued to draw further during summer, no carryover storage would be left in its reservoirs.
Karnataka, on the other hand, had maintained that as per the final order of the
Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal, it had to ensure that 192 tmc feet of water should flow to Tamil Nadu every year at Biligundlu measurement point.
No restriction
The State government had maintained that there was no restriction either on the area of irrigation or on the summer irrigation.
Karnataka has all the right to utilise the entire water available in the basin after ensuring 192 tmc feet of water flows to Tamil Nadu at Biligundlu measurement point, he said.
The Tamil Nadu government had also filed an application seeking direction to the Centre for publication of the February 5, 2007 decision of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, passed under Section 6(1) of the Inter State River Water Disputes Act, 1956.