Chennai: Two years after she stormed into Fort St George, the seat of power in Tamil Nadu, with a massive victory, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has a mixed bag of results to show so far.
Forcing the central government to gazette the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal by filing a case in the Supreme Court, distributing relief to farmers in the drought-hit areas; urging retrieval of the Katchatheevu islet from Sri Lanka; and setting up of Amma Canteen (budget canteen) selling food at subsidised rates are said to be some of the achievements of Jayalalithaa government.
THE AIADMK government has also fulfilled most of its election promises with free fan and mixie-grinder given to six million families at an outlay of Rs 3,370 crore and free laptops distributed to around 1.66 million students involving an expenditure of Rs 2,766 crore. However, the power problem plaguing the state remains a big challenge, while the steep hike in prices of essential items is said to be one of the negative points against the AIADMK's two year rule.
"It has been a challenging period for Jayalalithaa and she has overcome the challenges meritoriously. In the case of Cauvery water issue with Karnataka or the Mullaperiyar Dam dispute with Kerala, Jayalalithaa has notched up success," D Pandian, state secretary of Communist Party of India, told reporters....
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08:20 PM, May 16, 2013
Bangalore: There are less than nine days to go for the Karnataka elections. CNN-IBN's Karnataka Yatra reaches Bangalore, looking at the water politics in the state. Midway between Mysore and Bangalore is the epicentre of politics over the Cauvery river. Mandya district erupts every time water sharing becomes a dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and farmers Shakaralinga and Hanumappa say the reason they use all their force to protest...
11:49 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Puducherry Chief Minister N Rangasamy on Wednesday thanked his Tamil Nadu counterpart Jayalalithaa and the Centre after the notification of the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal's final award. ...
02:36 AM, Feb 21, 2013
The deadline for the Centre to notify the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal Award ends on Wednesday. After the notification, the future sharing of water among all Cauvery basin states, which are Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry, will be based on the final award. Currently, water sharing is based on the interim award of the Tribunal. ...
09:37 AM, Feb 20, 2013
An all-party delegation from Karnataka would meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday to apprise him of the state's position on the Cauvery issue. The announcement to take a delegation of floor leaders of both Houses of the state legislature to New Delhi was made by Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar in the Assembly on Wednesday. ...
10:50 PM, Feb 13, 2013
The Karnataka government is refusing to budge in the Cauvery water sharing dispute. The state government is reluctant to give water to Tamil Nadu for paddy crop despite the Supreme Court's order. The Jagadish Shettar-led Karnataka government is looking at other legal options. ...
03:22 PM, Feb 07, 2013
The Supreme Court has provided some relief to Tamil Nadu in the Cauvery water sharing dispute. The apex court has directed Karnataka to release 2.44 tmc of water to Tamil Nadu for the paddy crop. The court also observed that this limit will not adversely affect Karnataka's drinking water requirement. ...
11:28 AM, Feb 07, 2013
The Supreme Court has directed Karnataka to release 2 tmc feet of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu. The Supreme Court has also slammed the Centre for not notifying the order given by the Cauvery Water Tribunal five years ago. ...
03:20 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Karnataka told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that it cannot spare any more water for Tamil Nadu as it would affect the water needs of its own people. ...
03:40 AM, Jan 30, 2013
Expressing concern over the ongoing Cauvery water dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court on Monday said that Karnataka's requirement of drinking water should get precedence over irrigation needs of Tamil Nadu. ...
11:26 AM, Jan 28, 2013
The delay in notifying the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal in the Central Gazette has deprived the rights of Tamil Nadu on Cauvery and also in receiving the due share of the river water, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa said on Wednesday. ...
01:45 AM, Jan 10, 2013
The Supreme Court on Friday gave the central government time till January 31 to decide whether it would notify the decision of the water resources ministry accepting the Cauvery Water Tribunal award on the sharing of Cauvery river water. ...
02:45 AM, Jan 05, 2013
Citing an order of the apex court, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday urged Prime Minister Mammohan Singh to expedite the notification of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal's final order before the end of this month. ...
02:47 AM, Dec 21, 2012
The Supreme Court on Monday asked Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to approach the Cauvery River Authority headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to resolve their dispute over the sharing of the river's water. ...
09:21 AM, Dec 11, 2012
The emotive Cauvery water sharing dispute continues to keep Karnataka and Tamil Nadu tense. The Cauvery Monitoring Committee has come out with a distress sharing formula, but yet another appeal will be before the Supreme Court in two days. ...
09:29 AM, Dec 08, 2012
Karnataka was on Friday directed by the Cauvery Monitoring Committee to release 12 TMC (thousand million cubic) feet of Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu during December. The state said it would appeal the order. ...
12:26 AM, Dec 08, 2012
In the wake of Supreme Court directing Karnataka to release 10,000 cusecs to Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Thursday said he would lead a MPs team from the Cauvery Basin to meet the Prime Minister for apprising him of the distress situation in his state. ...
12:26 AM, Dec 07, 2012
Protests erupted late on Wednesday in Cauvery belt in Karnataka hours after Supreme Court's directive to the state to release 10,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu. ...
01:45 PM, Dec 06, 2012
Since Karnataka is heading for Assembly elections in 2013, the central government may not be pushing it hard to release Cauvery water for Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court was told by a counsel on Monday. ...
12:46 AM, Dec 04, 2012
Tamil Nadu and Karnataka should step up efforts to check bitterness among the people of the two states over the issue of sharing of Cauvery waters, DMK president M Karunanidhi said on Monday amid reports of some violent incidents in the border areas. ...
01:56 PM, Dec 03, 2012
