A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud sought the response from the beneficiary states as Attorney General K.K. Venugopal said there were two areas where the Centre wanted the court s intervention.
Venugopal also said there was some dispute among the four states and under the scheme there would be some authority and its nomenclature -- whether it would be a Board Authority or an entity -- had not been decided.
At the outset of the hearing the court recorded the presence of Water Resources Secretary U.P. Singh as he was directed in the last hearing to be personally present in the court.
The court directed the next hearing on Wednesday when in the light of the states response it will examine the scheme.
Despite prodding by the apex court the centre delayed its response till after Assembly elections in Karnataka.
--IANS pk/him/hs
