Saravanan, the spokesperson of Dravida Munnetrs Kazhagam (DMK) on Thursday praised and welcomed the decision of the Supreme Court, which stated that the Centre needs to constitute a Cauvery Management Board (CMB) within four weeks and 6,000 cusecs of water that will be released from Karnataka, will not be enough for Tamil Nadu.
According to ANI, Saravanan told them that it’s high time, Centre should intervene and constitute the Cauvery management board, so that there won’t be any loss of life or property in future.
“It shows, if the Tamil Nadu government has pointed out our leader M.K. stalin, if the Tamil Nadu government have acted in expeditious manner, I think Cauvery management board would have come into existence long time back. But anyway, better late than never. We welcome this decision of constituting this Cauvery management board,” Saravanan said.
Saravanan also said that the political parties of the state should obey the Supreme Court’s decision.
Earlier, the apex court on Tuesday directed the Karnataka government to release 6000 cusecs of water daily to Tamil Nadu from September 23 till September 27, the next date of hearing.
The Supreme Court also allowed both states, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to file their objections to Cauvery supervisory committee report within three days.
The water released from Mettur will first reach Upper Anaicatu Mukombu in Tiruchirapalli and from there to Grand Anaicutu Kallanai by weekend. From Kallanai, water will be released for samba crops in delta districts of Thanjavur, Nagapattinam and Tiruvarur.
Delta farmers hope that north east monsoon will start by third week of next month to save samba crops.
Sourced from PTI, Featured image courtesy: tamil.oneindia.com
