Since the Centre has not constituted these, “We are in a situation of approaching the Supreme Court to receive our share of water from Cauvery,” she said.
The state government had earlier moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to Karnataka to release 50 tmcft of water from Cauvery.
The court had initially directed Karnataka to release 15,000 cusecs of water for 10 days, but later modified it’s order, and asked the upper riparian state to release 12,000 cusecs of water till September 20.
Jayalalithaa said that the court’s direction was sought after her government’s communication to Karnataka seeking release of its share of water from Cauvery and to Centre urging its intervention did not yield any results.
As the state did not get its share of water, she had last month announced a Rs 64.30 crore package to help Delta farmers raise Samba (a form of paddy) crop, Jayalalithaa recalled.
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