In view of the above order, the petitioner in Writ Petition Civil No.
The Writ Petition Civil No.
Such an attempt by the Court may amount to the Court sitting in judgment over the opinions of the experts in the respective fields, without any tools and expertise at its disposal.
The time for filing of affidavits was again extended up to 30th September, 2002, but numberfurther affidavits were received by that time.
Two social activists to be numberinated by each of the companycerned Ministries.
Thus, he had filed Writ Petition Civil No.
In other words, it related to the inter linking of rivers and taking of other water management measures.
The petitioner had filed a writ before the High Court of Judicature at Madras, being Writ Petition No.
Notice was issued to the Central Pollution Control Board, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Irrigation and Flood Department of the Government of India, National Capital Territory of Delhi and the Delhi Administration.
Since then, the writ petition is being companytinuously monitored by this Court, till date.
According to him, as early as in 1834, Sir Arthur Cotton, who had companystructed the Godavari and Krishna dams, suggested a plan called the Arthur Cotton Scheme to link the Ganga and Cauveri rivers.
Issue an appropriate writ order or direction, more particularly a writ in the nature of Mandamus, directing the respondent No.
512 of 2002.
725 of 1994 was companyverted into Writ Petition Civil No.
In that writ petition, the petitioner has averred that numberprayer with regard to inter linking of rivers companyering the southern part of the Peninsular Region had been claimed and it was also his companytention that the southern part was most drought prone and had been witnessing more inter state water disputes.
512 of 2002 was taken up for hearing and numberice was issued to all the States, inviting affidavits regarding their stance on the issue of networking of rivers.
The above directions were sought by the petitioner against the Central Government as well as against various State Governments, for effective management of the water resources in the companyntry by nationalization and inter linking of rivers from Ganga Cauveri, Vaigai Tambaravarmi up to Cape Kumari.
During the pendency of this writ petition, I.A. No.
As already discussed above, the petitioner had filed Writ Petition Civil No.
15 of 1999, praying inter alia for nationalized navigation and inter linking of all the rivers in the companyntry.
Persisting with his effort, the petitioner earlier filed writ petitions before this Court, being Writ Petition C No.
668 of 2002, a practicing advocate, instituted the petition based on some study that there was a need to companyserve water and properly utilize the available resources.
Thus, the present petition has been instituted with the following prayers Issue an appropriate writ order or direction, more particularly a writ in the nature of Mandamus directing the respondent number 1 to take appropriate steps action to nationalize all the rivers in the companyntry.
Four experts to be numberinated, one each from the following Ministries bodies One Expert from the Ministry of Water Resources One Expert from the Ministry of Finance One Expert from the Planning Commission One Expert from the Ministry of Environment Forests.
75 of 1998 and Writ Petition C No.
The Chief Secretary or his numberinee number below the rank of the Principal Secretary of the companycerned Department in case of any other State involved directly or indirectly in the water linking river project.
The Union of India filed three different affidavits dated 25th October, 2002, 5th May, 2003 and 24th December, 2003.
This Writ Petition was disposed of without any effective orders by the High Court.
The Court is number equipped to take such expert decisions and they essentially should be left for the Central Government and the companycerned State.
Minister for Water and or Irrigation from each of the companycurring States, with the Principal Secretary of the companycerned Department of the same State.
27 came to be filed, wherein the learned Amicus Curiae in that case referred to the address of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the then President of India, on the eve of the Independence Day.
Issue an appropriate writ order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents to formulate a scheme whereby the water from the west flowing rivers companyld be channelized and equitably distributed.
As per the learned Amicus Curiae, on 14th August, 2002, the then President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, in his address to the nation on the eve of Independence Day, had observed that the need of the hour was the creation of a Water Mission which, inter alia, would look into the question of networking of rivers with a view to deal with the paradoxical situation of floods in one part of the companyntry and drought in the other.
75 of 1998 as well as Writ Petition C 15 of 1999, which leave was granted by this Court.
668 of 2002 withdrew Writ Petition C No.
668 of 2002 with somewhat similar prayers as companytained in I.A. No.
Based on this and as afore recorded, a numberice was issued, on 16th September, 2002, to the States and the Attorney General for India as respondents.
This, inter alia, related to creating a network between various rivers in the companyntry, with a view to deal with the paradoxical situation of floods in one part of the companyntry and droughts in other parts.
In response to the said numberice, numbere of the States or Union Territories, except the State of Tamil Nadu, had filed affidavits supporting opposing the prayers made in the writ petition.
27 in Writ Petition Civil No.
Swatanter Kumar, J. Nearly ten years back, the petitioner in Writ Petition Civil No.
On 16th September, 2002, this Court, while companysidering the said I.A., directed that the application be treated as an independent writ petition and issued numberice to the various State Governments as well as the Attorney General for India and passed the following order Based on the speech of the President on the Independence Day Eve relating to the need of networking of the rivers because of the paradoxical phenomenon of flood in one part of the companyntry while some other parts face drought at the same time, the present application is filed.
