New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the Centre’s draft Cauvery Water Management Scheme and asked the Government to notify and give effect to it before the “impending monsoon.”
The three-Judge Bench of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and D.Y. Chandrachud concluded that the draft scheme was in consonance with the Cauvery Water Tribunal’s award, as modified by the Court on Feb.16, and was also in conformity with the Inter-State River Water Disputes Act of 1956. The Court also dismissed Tamil Nadu's plea seeking initiation of contempt against the Centre for non-finalisation of the Cauvery scheme.
