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Centre notifies Cauvery Water Management Authority
News:
- The central government has issued a notification for the Cauvery Water Management Authority following Supreme Court order.
Important Facts:
- About Cauvery management control authority.
- The chairman of the authority will be appointed by the Central government. He/She must be of the rank of secretary or additional secretary or an eminent engineer.
- Tenure of chairman is five years.
- Two part-time members nominated by the Central Government
- Four part-time members nominated by the party State governments and Union territory administration respectively.
- The authority will decide the sharing of the river water between Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Pondicherry.
- The authority is directed for the following mandate:
- To monitor the storage of water
- Apportion of shares
- Supervise operation of the reservoirs
- Regulate water releases with the assistance of the Regulation Committee.
- The CWMA will also determine the total residual storage in the specified reservoirs on June 1 every year.
- water share of each state will be determined on the basis of water flows together with the available carry-over storage in the reservoirs
- The authority can seek the help of the Central Government for implementation of the Award of the Tribunal if any of states do not cooperate with the Cauvery authority.
