Amid Cauvery release order, Kabini farmers seek immediate canal water release

Farmers say those in Kabini ayacut were facing severe distress as tanks had dried ip, leaving inadequate drinking water and fodder for livestock. | Photo Credit: File Photo Amid the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee’s directive to release Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, farmers from the ayacut area of the Kabini irrigati

With the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) endorsing a directive of the Cauvery Water Regulatory Committee (CWRC) to the state of Karnataka to release daily 3,500 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu, the Karnataka Congress government has called an all-party meeting on the issue on Sunday, even as pro-Kannada groups c