PD-MEKEDATU-SESSION(MES1)

The Puducherry government would

convene a special assembly session Friday to adopt a

resolution urging the Centre to withdraw its permission given

to Karnataka government to prepare a detailed project report

(DPR) for its proposed dam across river Cauvery in Mekedatu.

Speaker of the Assembly V Vaithilingam reconvened the

session in response to the pleas made separately by the DMK

(an ally of the ruling Congress) and the opposition AIADMK and

it is likely that the session would be held for a day,

official sources said.

Legislators R Siva of DMK and A Anbalagan of AIADMK had

presented letters to Speaker recently seeking a special

session to condemn the Centre's decision to grant permission

to Karnataka for preparing a DPR.

Raising apprehensions that construction of a dam across

Cauvery would curtail availability of water for the lower

riparian states including Puducherry, they demanded scrapping

of the move.

The Central Water Commission had last month given its

go-ahead to Karnataka for preparing a DPR for a proposed

balancing reservoir-cum-drinking water project at Mekedatu.

The Tamil Nadu government has also opposed the Centre's

nod for the DPR, holding that the proposed dam would affect

its rights.

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