Question : CAUVERY WATER DISPUTE

(a) whether the Cauvery River Authority was established under his Chairmanship in August 1998;

(b) the number of weeks since then in which the actual flow of Cauvery waters to the Mettur reservoir has approximated to within 1 tmc less or more than the weekly flow stipulated in the schedule annexed to the interim award of the Cauvery Tribunal;

(c) the percentage of shortfall, week-wise in the actual flows compared to the stipulated flows during the four crucial months of the Kuruval agricultural season, June to September, in the calendar years 1999 and 2000;

(d) the percentage of excess supplies week-wise in the actual flows compared to the stipulated flows during the period of the North-East monsoon, October to December, in the calendar year 1999, as also in the months of September and October, 2000 after the harvesting of the bulk of the Kuruval crop; and

(e) whether Government propose to request the Hon’ble Supreme Court to resume its hearings in the light of the manifest failure of the Cauvery River Authority to ensure the implementation week by week of the weekly schedule stipulated in the interim award of the Cauvery Tribunal?

THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF WATER RESOURCES (SMT. BIJOYA CHAKRAVARTY)

(a) the Cauvery River Authority was established under the Chairmanship of Hon’ble Prime Minister in August, 1998.

(b) to (e) Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal in its interim order of June 25, 1991 has directed the State of Karnataka to release water from its reservoirs in Karnataka so as to ensure that 205.TMC of water is available in Tamil Nadu’s Mettur reservoir in a year from June to May. It has further directed that State of Karnataka shall regulate the release of water in a particular monthly pattern. In respect of particular month, the releases are to be made in four equal instalments. If in a particular week, it is not possible to release the required quantum of water, the said deficit shall be made good in the subsequent week. The Tribunal has further clarified in December, 1995 that their order dated 25th June, 1991 clearly spells out that the deficiency in a particular week has to be made good in a subsequent week and not necessarily within a particular month in which the deficit occurs. Until the deficit is made good, the deficit would accumulate. In a particular year, shortfall or excess in releases would have to be adjusted in an appropriate manner before the close of the particular season. The Cauvery River Authority was constituted to give effect to the implementation of the Order of 1991 and all subsequent related orders of the Tribunal. The weekly inflow at Mettur reservoirs vis-à-vis required flows as per CWDT interim order during the Calendar year 1999 and 2000 are given in attached Statement. The Cauvery River Authority has so far held two meetings and the Cauvery Monitoring Committee has held six meetings.

WEEKLY FLOWS 1999(TMC) WEEKLY FLOWS 2000(TMC)
Month	Stipulated	Actual flows Month	Stipulated	Actual flows	Flows	in	Flows in	in Mettur	Mettur	in Mettur	Mettur Reservoir ( As	Reservoir	Reservoir ( Reservoir	As	As	per CWDT	informed by As per CWDT	informed by	Interim	Tamil Nadu	Interim	Tamil Nadu	Order	Govt.) Order	Govt.)
JUNE JUNE
I 2.371 1.211 I 2.371 1.316
II 2.371 2.865 II 2.371 0.502
III 2.371 1.283 III 2.371 0.217
IV 3.048 5.077 IV 3.048 1.406
Monthly 10.161 10.436 TOTAL 10.16 3.934
Total
JULY JULY
I 9.655 0.989 I 9.655 4.348
II 9.655 0.956 II 9.655 3.781
III 9.655 4.271 III 9.655 7.502
IV 13.794 17.894 IV 13.794 2.357
Monthly 42.759 24.110 TOTAL 42.76 17.277
Total
AUGUST AUGUST
I 12.356 19.829 I 12.356 7.202
II 12.356 23.968 II 12.356 3.487
III 12.356 6.669 III 12.356 3.487
IV 17.652 5.413 IV 17.652 25.069
Monthly 54.720 55.879 TOTAL 54.72 39.244
Total
SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER
I 6.851 3.279 I 6.851 10.075
II 6.851 2.026 II 6.851 10.569
III 6.851 0.884 III 6.851 12.640
IV 8.808 4.017 IV 8.808 23.978
Monthly 29.361 10.206 TOTAL 29.36 59.453
Total
OCTOBER OCTOBER
I 6.813 13.807 I 6.813 31.594
II 6.813 9.313 II 6.813 38.540
III 6.813 11.958 III 6.813 15.287
IV 9.732 46.874 IV 9.732 28.827
Monthly 30.171 81.952 TOTAL 30.17 114.247
Total
NOVEMBER NOVEMBER
I 3.745 12.657 I 3.745 6.645
II 3.745 6.415
III 3.745 4.765
IV 4.815 15.590
Monthly 16.050 39.427
Total
DECEMBER
I 2.342 6.071
II 2.342 4.490
III 2.342 4.196
IV 3.345 5.325
Monthly 10.371 20.082
Total
TOTAL	193.593 242.092 SUB TOTAL 167.171 234.155