The Supreme Court has sought the Centre's response on Tamil Nadu Government's plea to convene a meeting of the Cauvery River Authority CRA headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and allow release of 25.373 tmfct of water to save standing crops in the state.
However, the apex court declined to give any specific direction to the CRA as sought by Tami Nadu's counsel .
The bench of Justices D K Jain and Madan Lokur also directed the Karnataka Government to file its reply on Tamil Nadu's application for evolving a distress water sharing formula and posted the matter for September 3.