Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 21 (ANI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin penned a letter to Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat over the discharge of water of Cauvery river by Karnataka and the “risks faced by the current Kuruvai crop” within the state.
“I have written to Hon’ble @gssjodhpur requesting the release of Cauvery water and highlighting the risks faced by the current Kuruvai crop in Tamil Nadu. Furthermore, I have urged immediate attention to this critical issue,” the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister tweeted.
Stalin has additionally shared the important thing factors from his letter written to Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on his Twitter deal with.
The letter highlights the dangers confronted by the present Kuruvai crop in Tamil Nadu attributable to Karnataka not releasing our due share of Cauvery waters, he shared.
The Mettur reservoir was opened on June 12 to facilitate the cultivation of the Kuruvai crop. However, the stream acquired at Billigundulu from June 1 to July 17 was considerably decrease than the prescribed quantum, with a shortfall of twenty-two.54 TMC, he knowledgeable.
Tamil Nadu has been making efforts to handle the disaster with even handed water administration, he stated. However, he added that the demand- provide hole can solely be met by releases from Karnataka.
In the letter he talked about that the Tamil Nadu Minister for Water Resources had beforehand sought the Union Jal Shakti Minister’s intervention throughout a gathering on July 5 and had additionally requested to instruct Karnataka to make up for the shortfall.
Chief Minister Stalin alerted within the letter that the standing Kuruvai crop within the state “can only be saved if Karnataka releases water immediately”.
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister has urged the Union Jal Shakti Minister’s “personal and immediate intervention” and has requested the route of the Cauvery Water Management Authority to challenge directions to Karnataka to observe the month-to-month schedule prescribed by the Supreme Court and make up for the shortfall. (ANI)