The Orissa High Court on Tuesday asked the Standing Counsels of the State and the Centre to get instructions from their Governments within ten days on a miscellaneous case filed along with a PIl by the Mahanadi Bachao Manch over the river dispute between Odisha and Chhattisgarh.
Seeking a judicial intervention in the dispute, the Manch has alleged that the river controversy is being fanned by claims and counterclaims by the two State Governments keeping the others in the loop about the projects coming up in the Mahanadi upper basins by the Chhattisgarh Government.
Not inclined to take up the PIl at this stage, a Division Bench of the High Court headed by Chief Justice Vineet Saran nevertheless asked the Standing Counsels to remain prepared with instructions from their Governments on the prayer made in the petition.
The petition has prayed the court to call for all the relevant communications between the two State Governments over the Mahanadi projects.