Digital atlas
While Kamal Haasan, president of the Makkal Needhi Maiam party, has been voicing his displeasure against the Centre over Cauvery, this is the first time that Rajinikanth spoke out on the issue.
Their call came a day after CSK made a comeback to IPL after a two-year ban, winning the first match against Mumbai Indians on Saturday night.
The state’s opposition parties and the ruling AIADMK too have questioned holding IPL matches in the state in the backdrop of farmers’ difficulties.
Leading actors, music directors and technicians participated in the Valluvarkottam protest organised by the South Indian Film Artistes Association — popularly known as Nadigar Sangam.
Tamil Nadu moved a contempt plea in the Supreme Court on March 31, seeking action against the Centre for allegedly failing to form the CMB and the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee within six weeks, as ordered by the court on February 16.
In its order, the top court marginally increased Karnataka’s share of Cauvery water and ordered a reduction in the allocation for Tamil Nadu.
Karnataka has objected to the constitution of the Cauvery board.
The sharing of the Cauvery water is a sensitive political issue in both states, and Karnataka, which saw one of its worst droughts in 2017, goes to polls in May. the river’s banks.
According to data released by the Assam State Disaster Management Authority, the state recorded its worst floods in four years in 2017 as the Brahmaputra and its tributaries breached their banks and inundated about 2,500 villages, displacing more than 1.8 million people.
The water resources ministry’s atlas project will help the state administration work with communities to protect lives — human and livestock — and property by providing tools and information to help them understand flood risks and make cost-effective mitigation decisions, the officials said.
The ministry is also planning to issue similar flood atlases for all the 20 river basins in the country by 2020. According to the officials, this will be an important step as many regions, other than the Northeast, have struggled with floods — such as flooding by the Jhelum in Srinagar and the Koshi in Bihar.
The maps for the Brahmaputra basin have been developed using 30 years of hydrological data, information on the frequency of floods, and highest recorded flooding in a particular area. The ministry has mapped at least 50 scenarios when the river, one of the mightiest in Asia, could flood its riparian areas.