[CA] Centre's Cauvery Water draft management scheme

Centre submitted the Cauvery Water draft management scheme before the Supreme Court

·        Centre was open to any nomenclature – Board, Authority or Committee

·        Centre wants the Cauvery authority to be headquartered in Bengaluru

·        Cauvery Authority to have 10 members, of which 6 will be from the centre

·        Authority to be assisted by Cauvery Water regulation Committee

·        Regulation Committee to meet once in 10 days in June and October and at least once a fortnight after the advent of the monsoon

·        Reservoirs to be operated by States concerned in an integrated manner under the authority’s overall guidance

·        Distress to be shared by States after the authority determines the conditions

·        Decisions will be based on a majority of the members

·        When the riparian states not satisfied with the decision taken by the authority, the authority would turn the Centre for help

·        The decision of the Centre in the matter will be final and binding on all parties concerned

·        But the draft scheme does not mention if an aggrieved state can approach the Supreme Court in appeal against the Centre’s decision itself