Monsoon may help smooth sharing of water this year: HD Kumaraswamy
Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Friday said he had instructed officials to release 20,000 cusecs from Kabini dam as he expressed hope there would be smooth sharing of Cauvery river water with Tamil Nadu in view of prospects of a good monsoon.
By : migrator
Update: 2018-06-15 18:51 GMT
Madurai
“I have instructed irrigation officials to release 20,000 cusecs from the Kabini dam. There is bright chance for good monsoon rains this year... If the monsoon continues like this, we can give Tamil Nadu’s share of 10 TMC in June as per the Cauvery Water Sharing Authority’s order,” he said.
The water to be released from Kabini would benefit both sides and farmers in both states would be happy, he said. “By the grace of God the monsoon has so far been good and has created a smooth atmosphere in sharing Cauvery water,” he told reporters after offering prayers at the Sri Meenakshi temple here.
Kumaraswamy said there was good rain in the catchment areas of rivers in Karnataka and dams were receiving good inflows. Meanwhile, Makkal Needhi Maiam founder Kamal Haasan expressed happiness over the Karnataka government’s decision to release water from the Kabini dam.“Spoke to @CMofKarnataka.
Expressed My pleasure on the opening of Kabini. Ultimately even after the Cauvery water management Authority starts functioning, only goodwill between the two States will open many more shut doors,” Kamal Haasan said in a tweet in Chennai.
Haasan who called on Kumaraswamy early this month in Bengaluru,discussed the Cauvery issue and pitched for talks to resolve the issue, saying courts were never a solution to the problem of sharing of the inter-state river.
Discharge to reach Mettur today
A PWD official from Mettur dam said that the water released from the river Kabini is likely to reach Mettur dam on Saturday.
From 15,000 cusecs on Thursday, the discharge from Kabini went up to 35,000 cusecs thus brightening the hopes of water reaching Mettur faster.
Sources said However, till Friday evening, water was yet to reach Biligundulu, the entry point of the Cauvery into Tamil Nadu.
Sources said it is expected to arrive by night and reach Mettur dam that is around 65 km away from Biligundulu.
As on Friday, water level in dam stood at 39.960 ft with a storage of 12.069 TMC against the full dam capacity of 93.470 TMC. The full reservoir level of the dam is 120 ft. The inflow of the dam was 616 cusecs and outflow was 500 cusecs.
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