Cauvery Authority dropped deliberation on Mekedatu after objection: TN Govt

The Cauvery Water Management Authority in its meeting in Delhi on Tuesday avoided discussion on the Mekedatu dam proposal of Karnataka after Tamil Nadu strongly objected to it, the state government said.

The CWMA also directed Karnataka to release 27.86 Thousand Million Cubic feet of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, which is the shortfall as against the entitlement of 86.38 TMC water for the period ending August 30 in addition to the due for September, the Tamil Nadu government said. Karnataka has released only 57.04 TMC water as on August 30. Though Mekedatu was mentioned as a subject in the agenda for the meeting, a discussion on it was dropped following Tamil Nadu’s strong objection, an official release here said quoting the proceedings of the 13th meeting of the authority held in the national capital.