Apart from cheap politics(no comments ), thought its good to share some usefull info. regarding this to clear some misunstanding : Karnataka Chief Secretary Sudhakar Rao, in his letter to the Union Water Resource Secretary Umesh Narayan Panjiar, contended that the Hogenakkal project was %u201Cundoubtedly%u201D a new scheme. %u201CUntil the inter-State implications arising from the project are examined under the provisions of the Inter-State Water Disputes Act, 1956, the Government of Tamil Nadu is not within its right to take up the project.%u201D Mr. Rao, in his reply to Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary L.K. Tripathy, said the grant of %u2018no objection%u2019 by the Union Water Resources Ministry could not be considered as resolution of inter-State implications arising from the project under consideration. The Tamil Nadu government had not made the Hogenakkal water supply project a part of its complaint or statement of case before the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT). Claiming that the Tamil Nadu government could not take up the new project without disclosing the detailed project report and other relevant information to Karnataka, Mr. Rao said unlike the Hogenakkal project, the Bangalore water supply project, taken up for utilisation of 30,000 million cubic feet, was part of the State%u2019s claim before the CWDT.
