CHENNAI: A day after the Centre notified the Cauvery scheme within the gazette, the Tamil Nadu government on Saturday nominated public works department secretary S Okay Prabhakar and PWD (Trichy Region) chief engineer Senthil Kumar as contributors of the Cauvery Water Management Authority and Cauvery Water Regulation Committee respectively.
The state government has sent the nominations to the Union ministry of water assets. “Chief minister Edappadi Okay Palaniswami cleared the names on Saturday morning, given the urgency for constitution of the authority and the committee as the agriculture season has begun within the state on June 1,” mentioned a senior government reliable. While gazetting the notification on Friday, after missing the time limit fixed via the courtroom to present effect to the scheme ahead of the onset of the monsoon, the Union ministry additionally wrote to the chief secretaries of all the riparian states inquiring for them to appoint the representatives via treating the issue as “most urgent.”
Till Saturday night, Tamil Nadu by myself had replied to the Centre’s communique. “Hopefully, we can get the nominations from different states - Karnataka, Kerala and the Union Territory of Puducherry - ministry of agriculture and farmers’ welfare and meteorology department in the next few days. We hope to have the first meeting in a week’s time,” Union water assets secretary UP Singh instructed TOI. The ministry may even must publish the proposal for appointment of its representatives as complete time and phase time contributors and the chairman to the “competent authority” for approval, which is but to be finished.
Modi government has modified the composition of the Cauvery Management Board really useful via the tribunal in 2007 and gazetted in 2013. As a end result, chairman of the authority may well be both senior/ eminent engineer with vast enjoy in water assets and handling inter-state water sharing problems, or an All India Service Officer within the rank of secretary/further secretary with enjoy in water assets. The ministry would put out an advertisement calling for programs for filling up the slot, sources mentioned. Till then, bearing in mind the urgency of the issue, intervening time arrangement will be made for the chairman of the authority to keep it purposeful.
Since there is not any further secretary within the ministry at present, Singh himself may well be requested via the government to head the authority in the intervening time, mentioned a source. The ministry could also be excited by settling on a technical particular person – corresponding to chairman of the Central Water Commission – to head the authority.
In a observation, PMK chief S Ramadoss mentioned that bureaucrats must not decide on water distribution. It must be left to irrigation engineers, he mentioned. “By mentioning that authority can search help from the Centre if any state does not cooperate, it is transparent the mechanism is a toothless frame. Let the authority be vested with felony powers to prosecute the states that don’t conform to its order,” Ramadoss mentioned.
The state government has sent the nominations to the Union ministry of water assets. “Chief minister Edappadi Okay Palaniswami cleared the names on Saturday morning, given the urgency for constitution of the authority and the committee as the agriculture season has begun within the state on June 1,” mentioned a senior government reliable. While gazetting the notification on Friday, after missing the time limit fixed via the courtroom to present effect to the scheme ahead of the onset of the monsoon, the Union ministry additionally wrote to the chief secretaries of all the riparian states inquiring for them to appoint the representatives via treating the issue as “most urgent.”
Till Saturday night, Tamil Nadu by myself had replied to the Centre’s communique. “Hopefully, we can get the nominations from different states - Karnataka, Kerala and the Union Territory of Puducherry - ministry of agriculture and farmers’ welfare and meteorology department in the next few days. We hope to have the first meeting in a week’s time,” Union water assets secretary UP Singh instructed TOI. The ministry may even must publish the proposal for appointment of its representatives as complete time and phase time contributors and the chairman to the “competent authority” for approval, which is but to be finished.
Modi government has modified the composition of the Cauvery Management Board really useful via the tribunal in 2007 and gazetted in 2013. As a end result, chairman of the authority may well be both senior/ eminent engineer with vast enjoy in water assets and handling inter-state water sharing problems, or an All India Service Officer within the rank of secretary/further secretary with enjoy in water assets. The ministry would put out an advertisement calling for programs for filling up the slot, sources mentioned. Till then, bearing in mind the urgency of the issue, intervening time arrangement will be made for the chairman of the authority to keep it purposeful.
Since there is not any further secretary within the ministry at present, Singh himself may well be requested via the government to head the authority in the intervening time, mentioned a source. The ministry could also be excited by settling on a technical particular person – corresponding to chairman of the Central Water Commission – to head the authority.
In a observation, PMK chief S Ramadoss mentioned that bureaucrats must not decide on water distribution. It must be left to irrigation engineers, he mentioned. “By mentioning that authority can search help from the Centre if any state does not cooperate, it is transparent the mechanism is a toothless frame. Let the authority be vested with felony powers to prosecute the states that don’t conform to its order,” Ramadoss mentioned.
Tamil Nadu nominates members to Cauvery panels
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