Government of India is contemplating to consolidate all the existing five tribunals and establish one single Integrated Water Disputes Tribunal for all the water disputes arising between different states from time to time. It is better to be late than never. It could have been done earlier but the circumstances were not conducive or the problems were not found to be so tricky.
As per the statement of a senior official from the Ministry of Water Resources, it will take about a year's time to set up the said Tribunal after getting the neccesary clearances and amending the Inter-State Water Disputes Act 1956.
Such a move on the part of Government of India indicates its thinking not to bring the water disputes under the sole jurisdiction of the Supreme Court although rightly demanded by certain quarters in view of warring claims among the states.
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