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Pennaiyar river issue
November 30 , 2024
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- The Supreme Court asked the Union government to place on record the report prepared by a committee negotiating the same dispute between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka over the sharing of the Pennaiyar river water.
- The court had in January 2024 directed the Union government to constitute a new negotiation committee under Section 4 of the Inter-State River Water Disputes Act of 1956.
- It aims to make a serious endeavour for a resolution between the two States.
- In 2018, Tamil Nadu moved the court against Karnataka’s work on check dams and diversions’ structures on the river.
- Tamil Nadu had argued as the flowing water of an Inter-State River is a national asset and no single State can claim exclusive ownership of its water.
- Also, it had also argued that an 1892 agreement over the river water was “valid and binding” on the party States.
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