TN to revise state water policy

Chennai:

Tamil Nadu government has constituted a committee on August 2013 to
submit draft state water policy to focus on development, conservation,
utilization and management of water resources and also for regulation
of ground water, according to a report of Comptroller and Auditor
General.

State water policy will be revised within the framework provided by
National Water Policy to facilitate enactment of legislation for
regulation and control of ground and surface water.

The report said that the state water policy was not revised in line
with National Water Policy formulated by Centre in 2002. In the
sbasence of revised policy with legal framework for regulation and
control of ground ground and surface water, the water resources
department did not have effective control over surface water and
drawal of ground water.

The report also stated that the Tamil Nadu government has repealed the
‘The Tamil Nadu Ground Water (development and Management) Act’ in
September 2013 with a view to comprehensively change it taking into
account the present demand, need and supply.