Today is D-day in the country’s oldest river water dispute. The final order in the Cauvery row which has kept political, linguistic and parochial pots boiling on either side for decades will come in an hour or so from now. Saggere Ramaswamy of Karnataka Photo News sends us a picture, shot this morning, of the river that has benignly sustained us and generations before us without rancour and illwill. Some 90,000 cusecs of water was released from the Krishnaraja Sagar dam today, given the heavy inflow.
Ah, what a picture! Saggere avare, you have no idea how refreshed I feel. Thanks.
Good job done Saggere
Finally, its all out and as expected…we are not going to have the major share but TN. Donno whether the factual metircs were considered in giving this verdict ( which i dont think so ) … but this will add to more gap b/n the neighbouring states. People who donot know what a TMC feels like demand for 419 TMC and as if we at Karnataka have to die and that they r not concerned at all….
As usual, our Nerveless MPs at center are too busy with licking business and no time for fighting or this…
Our Jnanavillada Girish Karnad is still busy gvng anti-state statements for cheap publicity…
CM/Dy CM plans to go against the decision abd to Supreme Court, but there is a least chance of Supreme Court going by facts and figures but the Strong political pressure from Karunanidhi.
And i wud keep watching for comments like u all and sleep happily thereafter……….
I think the judgement is basically fair.Karnataka has to give only 192 tmc,while it can use 270 tmc.historically,the lower riparian state,TN here,have well developed irrigation systems.Remember,the cauvery delta is a plain.
It would have been better if the measuring point had been a point downstream of biligundu.I maintain that plateaus and hills belong to karnataka.An extra 25 tmc is ‘lost’ between bilingundu and mettur.
In times of plentiful rain,Karnataka gives more than 300 tmc in a year.
Now karnataka can extend acreage and also provide more drinking water to bangalore and mysore.Providing more water to cities can increase urbanisation and influx from other states.
I feel karnataka should get a better deal for kannadigas in hosur,dhenkanikota,gudalur in ooty.Also for kannadigas in kasaragod.TN has also obligations.The centre must play a role in making every state understand its obligations.
Photo bombatagide swami adare TN noru nodidare nodi eshtu niride innu kodi anthare ashte( just joking)
Any way we didn’t get the bigger share but still the +ve point is that the tribunal has given the instructions on how much to release on each month. EEga TN noru male barade idda kaladalli niru bidi antha kelo hage illa (hope so )
Again we have started our blame game on politician now people talking abut the current govt has failed etc., but we shud remember that the case is going on since last 16yrs. All parties shud take the responsibilty and shud join hands with govt to solve the problem.
I think the media shud stop asking opinions if these so called buddijeevis ( rather durbudddijeevis) they do nothing except giving cheap statements
Above all common man shud act properly and +vely
But who’ll teach these people mislead by politicians and ‘rakshane vedikes’ that Mandya is greater than India, who have predecided to squate on the highway troubling their own people. If you ask me we should not give a drop of water to TN. We should also not take a drop from Maharashtra, even if the whole Mandya district drowns! wake up people!
ree Tamilnaadge yenaadru anyaaya aagidre..yistothige yesto jana nadhige biddhu satthhu hogthidru..amele yinnu sikkapatte aarbhata maadthidhru
Less than 12 hrs after the release of the verdict, The Hindu had a platitude filled editorial editorial asserting, without any caution, that the verdict was eminently implementable. Whatever happened to the much-touted guarded caution of the India’s National Paper?
The same tone and tenor is reflected in today’s editorial and editorial columns. The only article that tries to take the KA perspective, reads like a cursory attempt.
All the eminent analysts at the Hindu have highlighted that 10 tmc of KA’s share is for environmental purposes, but none have the asked the obvious question as to why is that the environment is ONLY KA’s denige to the Cauvery basin?
Ditto the letters to the editors, which suspiciously has exactly one letter from KA.
The rest of Cauvery related articles are filled with patronizing articles about widespread but peaceful protests. As Arundhati Roy would say this a naked attempt to deny dignity of angst or some other nonsense like that.
At best, situated as it is on Mount Road, The Hindu appears to be blind to KA’s concerns in the issue and at worst it appears that the maha vishnu is trying to browbeat public opinion into submission of the verdict, even as all and sundry are still trying to digest the 1000 page 5 volume report.
It might well be that verdict will be accepted by KA, but let that be based on careful consideration. As things stand it is too early for the National newspaper to be making prescriptions.
gopal, nimmden plan?
I completely agree with u subba.
I was disappointed with The Hindu. It took a biased stands towards TN.
If u see center page articles & letters to editor it looks like a planted ploy
I thought hindu is a china expert & it poses itself as a cauvery expert as well…. :)
It’s an intellectual dishonesty…… India’s national news paper was a victim of chauvinism
sorry to inject a bit of poison.not intended against anyone.for the sake of truth.Surrendering myself to krishna and acharyal,Iyengars are in larger number in TN than in mysore,mandya and tumkur.Srivaishnava theology is essentially tamil.
karnatakalover…haaLodhavnu yellindha barthya
yella websiteallu nindhe aagi hogidhe
to be more charitable,to nram,there are more tamils than kannadigas.no offense meant to anyone in karnataka.The last thing you want is an outsider to create trouble.
kl
i thought we live in a democracy, and i am pretty sure the eminent editorialists know that essence of democracy is in protecting minority rights from the tyranny of majority.
please stop spouting civilizational pyscho babble.
friends,
i am sorry for my remarks.went through yesterday and today’s hindu.as i dont buy the “Hindu”
I thought that the editorial was nearly flawless.except for the fact that the “cauvery family” is primarily a TN initiative.
The op-ed article by Ramaswamy Iyer,former secretary,Ministry of Water Resources,GOI was again very balanced.
there is no reason to fault ms.menon’s analysis.karnataka can increase its acreage and have a hydro-electric plant at mekedatu.Though farmers in kabini basin might be affected.This is something Karnataka has to negotiate with kerala.
I am sorry again for my remarks.
t
Lover, you shouldn’t be apologetic! I’ve enjoyed reading you. One may disagree with Girish Karnad or with you but without your kinda plain talk the issue would not have much traction. You’ve contributed to the discussion, and that’s really important.
For Karnataka it would seem the final verdict is not much different from the interim.
Such legal disputes often are about who has the better day (or years!) in court than about who has the better case. Perhaps our state’s interests were not adequately represented to the tribunal.
Meanwhile, I congratulate Karnataka police for keeping the peace in the face of some pretty raw public emotion.
Supereme court ge Aadesha sandi, Tamil nadi ge Agama Sandi, Karnatakakke sadaa lopa sandi
Good one, DG aadare nenne yavudo channel newsnalli nodide talacauvery sanadi nalli nadi ne lopa aagutha idhe anthe???
Any way I agree with moro KA police have done a good job there is not that much big problem as expected again people will say KA noru waste antha ene adaru lorry bus suttu galate madodakintha bere thara dari nalle hogabahudu annisuthe may be something like gandhigiri
Heard that Govt is seriously thinking to ply aircrafts (ATR) from B’lore to Mysore. How the hammerheads in Mandya will react to this?! They will build huge cutouts of Ambarish to block the aircrafts! Not so funny, right?!
this judgement further proves that justice in india is a function of money, power.
Rama,
Who told you that Ambi can be so big? As far as I know he was always down to earth during my lifetime there!!!! :-)
Now he might go down the river to escape the wrath of people in Mandya – emulating Dhuryodhana. It remains to be seen if he can come out safely and fight the next election.
sir,
The joke was not on Ambarish per se. It was for the people and big farmer mafias who are controlling the Mandya contrymen. and I always see Huge cutouts in Mandya unlike in most other parts in Karnataka. If not Ambarish, it can be of any modern film stars!
better would be erect the cutouts in Mysore airport….