Mahadayi dispute: Goa’s complaint now irrelevant

Team Udayavani, Feb 14, 2018, 5:27 PM IST

Bengaluru/New Delhi: The Karnataka government on Tuesday told the Mahadayi Water Dispute Tribunal that the protest documented by the Goa government was not any more applicable as it has surrendered that the accessibility of water in the basin was 113.50 tmcft as against its past claim of 54 tmcft.

Advancing its arguements, state counsel advocate Mohan V Katarki submitted before a bench presided over by Justice J M Panchal that Goa has guaranteed that there was definitely no scope for diversion of water outside the basin to Malaprabha waterway yet there was no allegation in its objection that Malaprabha was a surplus river.

The Karnataka government additionally battled that there was no express claim by Goa in its objection that its advantages or that of its occupants would be influenced by the acts of the state.

The Goa government had questioned the Karnataka government building enormous reservoirs in the basin of Malaprabha and Kali Rivers, beyond its own prerequisites. Karnataka looked for diversion of more than 7 tmcft of water from Mahadayi basin to Malaprabha basin on the ground that river water going to ocean is wastage. Meanwhile it pulled back a hatred plea against the Karnataka government.

In its dispute, the Karnataka government stated, “The complaint or grievance Goa is established against the water bodies studies the National Water Development. In any case, this grievance does not survive, in light of the fact that the state has now argued that the useful water in the Mahadayi basin isn’t 54 tmcft but 113.50 tmcft, which is strongly debated by Karnataka.”

The Karnataka government additionally presented that the way of planning, feasibility of a project, yield at the project site, and selection of resources can’t be the topic of settling and fell outside the jurisdiction of the Tribunal.

A riparian state, out of its impartial offer in the waters of a inter-state river, has a self-governance under the Constitution to design its water resources as it considered fit, the Karnataka government contended.