What i dont understand is how come at the peak season of a above average monsoon, a river water dispute flares up between these two states?
A detailed & worthy writeup on the issue's background...
https://www.quora.com/Can-anyone-write- ... Tamil-Nadu
Now coming to the oft repeated solution of creating local irrigation potential & funding sustainable irrigation practices ....
Does anyone know the amount being spent on freebies in both states?
1) TN takes the cake here - totally useless freebies to buy votes Tv sets,Laptops,grinders,TVS scooties and what not.Can any one contrast the cost of these freebies to the amount spent on funding drip irrigation sytems for the water sucking sugarcane crops of TN?
2)Loan waivers - All major agricultural states of south indulge in this farce - especially congress dominated states.Most recently the congress govt in KN gave a loan waiver to farmers(major portion going to big farmers having congi patronage) in October 2015.
Why is creation of irrigation potential not an electoral issue in these states ?
Maha suffered a long drought and its now doing Jal Yukt Shivir - deepening and widening of streams, construction of cement and earthen stop dams, work on nullahs and digging of farm ponds etc.
Even a crook like YSR knew the pull for irrigation projects in a farming state like AP and made promise of JalaYagnam (construction of major & minor irrigation projects) as a central pillar of his election manifesto.Even today center knows this pulse of farmers & is touting its support to polavaram irrigation project in lieu of special status.
I dont see any clamor for such water storage projects as much as i see for freebies & other useless issues in these states .
Vaigai is parched in the South TN - and folks there are diverted on emotional tamil eelam issues.
North KN is parched and there people are diverted on emotional KN-Maha language issues.All the time their elites make merry in Chennai & Bangalore respectively - diverting water to these over industrialized cities.
Why is there no industrial center worth its name in North KN or in South TN.Why is this regional disparity not an electoral issue.?
Why is there no demand for joining Kaveri to Vaigai and then on to Krishna & Godavari Mahanadi along the eastern coast?
Is it because there is no national party in these states which can raise above each state's chauvinistic insular concerns?
Its high time the emotional people of these states currently making all the noise ask their respective politicians in power what they have done to create water storage potential in the water scarce areas of these states.
Added later:
Also center should bring the states together to roll out a monsoon performance indexed MSP varying geographically as per monsoon performance in say
127 Agro zones of the country.
If an agroclimatic zone is predicted to be raindeficient (by a cutoff date in beginning of the monsoon) reduce the MSP for water sucking crops like rice & sugarcane in that year for that zone & incentivize water conserving crops like pulses or other cashcrops that year in that zone.