1. Farmers in Karnataka protest after SC refuses to stay CWMA order on releasing water to Tamil Nadu
Farmers in Mandya, which is the Cauvery heartland, resorted to a flash protest and staged a demonstration in the town and other parts of the district on September 21 soon after the Supreme Court refused to intervene in the order of the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) directing Karnataka to release 5,000 cusecs of water per day to Tamil Nadu till September 27. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Deputy CM D.K. Shivakumar, and others met Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat to seek the Centre’s intervention in the issue.
Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court refused to intervene either in favour of Karnataka or Tamil Nadu in the Cauvery water dispute. A three-judge Bench headed by Justice B.R. Gavai said the various factors, including water distress in the Cauvery basin, considered by the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) and the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) while fixing the daily water flow were neither “extraneous” nor “irrelevant”.
