Justice Manohar Sapre to head Cauvery Tribunal
Q. Who has been appointed Chairman of the Cauvery Tribunal?- Published on 24 Feb 17a. Justice Ghodke
b. Justice Sapre
c. Justice Shahane
d. Justice Bobde
ANSWER: Justice Sapre
The Union Government has appointed Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre of the Supreme Court as Chairman of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal.
He was nominated by Chief Justice J.S. Khehar.
In December 2016, Union Cabinet had cleared a proposal to set up a single, permanent Water Disputes Tribunal to adjudicate all inter-state river water disputes subsuming existing tribunals.
It also had proposed to float some Benches to look into disputes to speed up water sharing disputes among States.
Cauvery Tribunal- The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) was constituted by the Government of India on 2nd June 1990.
- It was to adjudicate the water dispute regarding inter-state river Cauvery and the river valley thereof. The Tribunal had also passed an Interim Order in June, 1991 and further Clarificatory Orders on the Interim Order in April, 1992 and December, 1995.
- The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal has submitted its reports and decision under Section 5 (2) of Inter-State River Water Disputes Act, 1956 to Government on 5th February, 2007.
- The party states and the Central Govt. have sought clarification and guidelines under Section 5(3) of the Act.
- Matter was heard on 29.7.08 and the apex court passed the order that the matter maybe listed before a three Judge bench in Nov, 2008.
