{"id":109052,"date":"2021-05-27T20:35:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T15:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=109052"},"modified":"2021-05-28T11:57:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T06:27:54","slug":"mekedatu-project-a-panel-to-investigate-charges-of-illegal-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mekedatu-project-a-panel-to-investigate-charges-of-illegal-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mekedatu Project&#8221; &#8211; A Panel to investigate charges of illegal construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-green-tribunalngt\/\">National Green Tribunal<\/a>(NGT) has formed a committee to investigate the alleged violation of norms in the construction of the Mekedatu project across the Cauvery river. The NGT has also directed the panel to submit a report on or before July 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Mekedatu Project:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mekedatu project <\/strong>is a balancing reservoir and drinking water project. It is to be built at the confluence of the Cauvery and Arkavathi rivers by the Karnataka Government.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose<\/strong>: The project aims to solve the drinking water problems of the Bengaluru and Ramanagara district. It would also generate <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">400 MW of hydroelectric power<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dispute: <\/strong>The Tamil Nadu Government has objected to the project saying Karnataka had not sought prior permission for the project.\n<ul>\n<li>Tamil Nadu has also filed a petition in the Supreme Court in 2018 seeking a stay on the project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Objections by Tamil Nadu Government:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Firstly, <\/strong>the Mekedatu project would affect the flow of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secondly, <\/strong>Karnataka has no right to construct any reservoir on an inter-state river without the consent of the lower riparian state i.e. Tamil Nadu in this case.\n<ul>\n<li>The project is also <strong>against the final order of the\u00a0Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal<\/strong> (CWDT). During that, the SC held that <strong>no state can claim exclusive ownership or assert rights to deprive other states of the waters of inter-state rivers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thirdly,\u00a0<\/strong>The CWDT and the SC have found that the\u00a0<strong>existing storage facilities available in the Cauvery basin were adequate\u00a0<\/strong>for storing and distributing water. So, the Tamil Nadu Government is demanding outright rejection of the project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other concerns with the project:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Almost 63% of the forest area of the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary will be submerged in the project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=GAG8K7NV2.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The National Green Tribunal(NGT) has formed a committee to investigate the alleged violation of norms in the construction of the Mekedatu project across the Cauvery river. The NGT has also directed the panel to submit a report on or before July 5. About Mekedatu Project: Mekedatu project is a balancing reservoir&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mekedatu-project-a-panel-to-investigate-charges-of-illegal-construction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Mekedatu Project&#8221; &#8211; A Panel to investigate charges of illegal construction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,7965,9],"tags":[1400,1332],"class_list":["post-109052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-eco_10","tag-geog_5","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704887055},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}