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| Tribunal to announce decision |
| Authorities have deployed additional 15,000 policemen in Karnataka in view of the impending decision.
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| INDIA
, 5-February-2007
1:51:47 AM |
| After almost 17 years of its inception, the Cauvery Tribunal Committee will finally give its verdict on Monday on water sharing.
The verdict will decide how the river's water should be shared between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka and to a lesser extent, Kerala and Puducherry.
Authorities have deployed additional 15,000 policemen in Karnataka in view of the impending decision.
Security throughout the state has been beefed up with Mandya district being declared as hyper sensitive. The state's Tamil community is particularly apprehensive in view of violence against them on previous occasions.
Behind the conflict
The four southern states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry have been locked in a dispute over the Cauvery waters for many years now, punctuated by frequent battles in the Supreme Court.
The river begins in Karnataka but the state has always said the 1892 agreement, which is the source of the dispute, is unfair.
That was the year when the British-ruled Madras presidency (now Tamil Nadu) bulldozed the Maharaja-ruled Mysore (Karnataka) not to do anything with the Cauvery waters without the permission of Tamil Nadu.
In 1974, the Raj-era agreements lapsed. Tamil Nadu wanted them continued while Karnataka wanted to renegotiate in 1990, and so, the Cauvery tribunal was set up to resolve the standoff.
In the 17 years since then the only thing the two big states agreed to, was the figure of 740,000 million cubic feet.
This is the average amount of water that follows in the Cauvery annually. But the two differ vastly on how much water they need.
Tamil Nadu says it needs three quarters of this and Karnataka can make do with only a quarter. But Karnataka wants two thirds and let Tamil Nadu get a third.
Legal hurdles
For 17 years, a final decision has been delayed because of politics and legal hurdles. Many are skeptical that even now, any decision by the tribunal will get bogged down by politics.
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