The Hindu : Jayalalithaa seeks CRA meeting

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Tuesday, Dec 17, 2002

Southern States

Southern States - Tamil Nadu

Jayalalithaa seeks CRA meeting

By Gargi Parsai

NEW DELHI DEC. 16. The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, has sought a meeting of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA).

In a letter written earlier this month to the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, who is also the Chairman of the Authority, Ms. Jayalalithaa "regretted" at not being able to attend the CRA meeting on November 29. The meeting was not held for lack of quorum — the Kerala Chief Minister, A.K. Antony, was absent too. Only the Karnataka Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, and the Pondicherry Chief Minister, N. Rangaswamy, were present.

In her letter, Ms. Jayalalithaa suggested that the CRA meeting could be convened a day after the National Development Council meeting on December 21, as all the Chief Ministers would be present in New Delhi then. The last CRA meeting was to have decided the shortfall in Cauvery water releases by Karnataka to Tamil Nadu during September and October and impress upon Karnataka to make good the deficit. Both States differed on the deficit even as Karnataka faced a contempt petition in the Supreme Court, which is now likely to come up next January.

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