Cauvery Water Management Authority gets full-time chairman
The Hindu
Saumitra Kumar Haldar, now the head of the Central Water Commission, has been made CWMA’s chairman.
More than three years after its establishment, the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) has got a full-time chairman. Saumitra Kumar Haldar, now the head of the Central Water Commission (CWC), has been made CWMA’s chairman.
This has been approved by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet, according to a circular issued by the Department of Personnel and Training in the Union Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions on Monday.
Since the Authority was constituted in June 2018, the Centre assigned addtional charge as the CWMA’s chief to those who held the post of CWC chairman - S. Masood Husain and R. K. Jain, apart from Mr. Haldar himself, who chaired a meeting of the Authority in New Delhi on Monday. In December 2018, Tamil Nadu even approached the Supreme Court, challenging this arrangement of the Centre and seeking the appointment of a full time chairman.
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