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Cauvery notification gets Law Ministry nod

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January 21, 2013

cauveryNew Delhi, Jan 21: The decks have been cleared for notifiying the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal (CWDT) final award, with the Union Law Ministry giving its approval.

“The Law Ministry has given its nod to notify the award by clearing the draft notification. Now, the Water Resources Ministry will decide whether to go ahead with issuing the notification or not,” sources in the government told Deccan Herald.

The Law Ministry also clarified that the Inter-State Water Disputes Act, 1956, will not prevent the Centre from notifying it despite the pending petitions in the Supreme Court.

Sources said though the Water Resources Ministry is ready to issue the final notification, it has sought the Law Ministry’s opinion  to avoid any legal complications.  The Water Resources Ministry also referred the matter to the prime minister as the issue involved inter-state dispute.

The prime minister, who is also the chairman of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA), is likely to suggest to the ministry whether it can go ahead with the notification by the end of this month.

When the Cauvery dispute came up at the recently held Congress Core Group meeting here, it was decided that the matter be left to the prime minister to take a final call on. Water Resources Minister Harish Rawat was learnt to have briefed the core group, which includes the prime minister and party chief Sonia Gandhi.

While, on the one hand, Karnataka has opposed the notification of the final award, Tamil Nadu, on the other , has been pressing for an early notification. Though the Centre had informed the Cauvery water-sharing states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala and the Union Territory of Puducherry that it would notify the award by December-end, it was delayed as the matter was referred to the Law Ministry.

In what was then described as a balancing act, the tribunal gave Tamil Nadu 419 tmc of water (as against the demand of 562 tmc), Karnataka 270 tmc (as against its demand of 465 tmc), Kerala 30 tmc, and Puducherry 7 tmc. It had reserved 10 tmc for environmental protection. The tribunal’s award will come into effect within 90 days of its notification by the Centre.

After the issuance of the notification, institutions like the CRA and the CMC?will cease to exist. New organisations like the Cauvery Management Board and the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee will be constituted which will have representatives from all the co-basin states, and experts in hydrology and agriculture.

They will be under the control of the Centre.

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Agencies
June 6,2020

New Delhi, Jun 6: Bookings for select destinations in the USA, Canada, UK and Europe etc under Phase3 of Mission Vande Bharat opened at 5 pm on Friday, according to Air India.

"#FlyAI: Bookings for select destinations in USA, Canada, UK & Europe etc under Phase3 of #MissionVandeBharat opened at 5pm today. Around 60 million hits received till 7pm on our website & 1700 seats sold through website alone in 2 hrs. Bookings continue & tickets are being issued," the national carrier said in a tweet on Friday.

The third phase of the mission will begin from June 11 and continue till June 30.

Air India will operate five flights in the third phase of Vande Bharat Mission to evacuate almost 1,200 Indians nationals stranded in the United Kingdom between June 18 to June 23.

Air India will operate 70 flights in the third phase of Mission Vande Bharat to evacuate Indians stranded in the US and Canada between June 11 to June 30, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri had said. 

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Agencies
May 24,2020

Lucknow, May 24: The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has banned Corona patients from keeping mobile phones inside isolation wards of COVID-19 hospitals in the state.

Patients admitted in dedicated L-2 and L-3 COVID hospitals will no longer will allowed to take mobile phones along with them in the isolation wards in order to check the spread of the infection.

According to an order issued by the state government late on Saturday night, two mobile phones will now be available with the ward in-charge of the COVID care centres so that patients and talk to their family members and administration if required.

Further, the orders specify that the mobile numbers should be communicated to the family members of the patients also.

Director General Medical Education, K.K. Gupta, who issued the order, has informed all concerned officials and directors of dedicated COVID hospitals.

"To facilitate the communication between COVID-19 patients admitted in clinics, with their family members, or anyone else, ensure that two dedicated mobile phones while adhering to infection prevention norms, are kept with ward in-charge of COVID care centre," the order said.

According to the latest data available on the website of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Uttar Pradesh now has 5,735 cases of Corona positive patients and the numbers have been growing steadily since the past ten days.

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News Network
April 7,2020

New Delhi, Apr 6: Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan on Monday complimented his counterparts in other states for voluntarily accepting a 30 per cent cut in their salaries and allowances in the fight against coronavirus.

Talking to the news agency over the phone, Khan referred to the announcement in this regard made by the Centre on Monday and said he had already written to President Ram Nath Kovind, asking him to reduce his salary and allowances by 30 per cent.

"It is everyone's duty to do this when the country is fighting the pandemic. Even if it is more than 30 per cent of the salary cut, we have to accept it, he said.

The country is fighting an invisible enemy and it is everybody's duty to contribute to meet the challenge, the governor said.

Khan appreciated the LDF government in Kerala and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan for taking "proactive" measures in containing spread of coronavirus.

"The government is keeping me informed about the measures taken by it and I on my part give them suggestions and ideas to tackle the menace," he said.

In Kerala, "We have a capable and competent government and over 80 per cent of patients in the state are those Indians who returned from abroad or foreigners. The community spread cases are very less, he said.

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