Chennai: In the wake of media reports that the Karnataka government has approached the Central Water Commission (CWC) to seek technical clearance for the Mekedatu project across River Cauvery, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami yesterday wrote to Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti, asking her not to accord clearance to the project till the issue is settled legally.
The CM claimed that the application of the Karnataka govt. before the CWC was in violation of the final order of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT). He urged that no clearance should be given to Mekedatu or any other project in the Cauvery basin “till the concurrence of all the co-basin States is obtained by the Karnataka government; the Cauvery Management Board and the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee are formed and come into force; and the judicial references are finally settled.”
