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Pennaiyar Basin
Context
The Supreme Court asked the Union government to file within two weeks a report on negotiation committee formed over a dispute related to distribution of Pennar river water.
About Pennaiyar Basin
- Pennaiyar Basin is the second largest interstate East flowing river basin among the 12 basins lying between Pennar and Cauvery basins.
- It covers a large area in the State of Tamil Nadu besides the areas covered in the states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
- The Pennaiyar river, once called Dakshina Pinaki river, is the only water source for Tamil Nadu's industry-heavy town of Krishnagiri.
- The river enters Tamil Nadu in Krishnagiri and flows through districts like Cuddalore, Villupuram, Dharmapuri, Tiruvannamalai and Kallakurichi, irrigating more than four lakh acres.
- Pennaiyar river basin lies within the tropical monsoon zone.
- The Pennaiyar river is having 14 tributaries, namely: Chinnar West, Chinnar East, Markandanadhi, Kambainallur, Pambar, Vaniyar, Kottaipatti, Kallar, Valayar Odai, Ramakkal, Pambanar, Aliyar, Musukundanadhi and Thurinjalar.
- The Basin is bounded on the North -West and South by various ranges of the Eastern Ghats like the Velikonda Range, the Nagari hills, the Javadu hills, the Shevaroy hills, the Chitteri hills and the Kalrayan hills and in the East by the Bay of Bengal.
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