Mekedatu issue: CRC’s call to Tamil Nadu government
The Hindu
The Cauvery Retrieval Committee has urged the State government to explain to the people of Tamil Nadu how it is going to thwart the persistent attempts by the Karnataka government to make its ambition
The Cauvery Retrieval Committee has urged the State government to explain to the people of Tamil Nadu how it is going to thwart the persistent attempts by the Karnataka government to make its ambition of constructing a dam across the Cauvery river at Mekedatu a reality.
In a statement issued here on Tuesday, the Committee Coordinator, P.Maniarasan has pointed out that responding to a question on the Mekedatu project from Janata Dal (Secular) MP, Prajwal Revanna, recently at the Parliament, the Union Minister of State, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Ashwini Kumar Choubey has replied that the Detailed Project Report was under active consideration of the Ministry.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.