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Karnataka continues efforts to seek early CRA meeting
Bangalore, Sept 05: A day after deciding to comply with the Supreme Court order asking it to release 1.25 tmc ft of Cauvery water daily to Tamil Nadu, Karnataka stepped up efforts to convince Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to convene a meeting of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) before he leaves on his nine-day visit abroad on September 9.
Karnataka is making all-out efforts to plead with the Prime Minister to summon the CRA meeting, at least a day prior to Vajpayee's departure to work out a formula to share the distress situation.
Karnataka minister for water resources H K Patil told reporters here that chief minister S M Krishna, who spoke to Vajpayee last night, had a talk with him again this morning.
Meanwhile, Patil convened a meeting of the experts committee on Cauvery to seek guidance on the water sharing tangle and to finalise the stand to be adopted by the state at the September 7 Cauvery monitoring committee meeting.
Patil and law minister D B Chandregowda said the Central Water Commission had sent a set of guidelines on evolving a distress formula but declined to elaborate.
The meeting was attended by former Karnataka chief minister M Veerappa Moily, opposition BJP leader Jagadish Shettar, Janata Parivar leaders P G R Sindhia, M C Nanaiah and former irrigation minister H N Nanjegowda and experts.
Bureau Report