Concerned over the rising tension between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over the vexed Cauvery dispute, students of Maharani’s Science College for Women in Mysuru have reached out to Prime Minister Narendra Modi through e-mails.
More than 400 students of the college sent individual e-mails to the PM on Friday expressing their anguish over the Supreme Court’s directive to release water to Tamil Nadu and sought the his intervention to ease the unrest in the two states. “We are aware that there is no water in our reservoir. At this juncture the hard fact to understand is that if we share water, then we will not have enough water to meet our drinking needs,” read an e-mail sent to the Prime Minister, who has hitherto steered clear of the Cauvery conflict.
“The Prime Minister is known to be accessible through the digital medium. This is why the students sent e-mails to Mr. Modi. They have sought his intervention in resolving the matter,” said Raghu S.P., an independent film-maker, who organised the e-mail campaign, with the help of his friends.
The students, who clicked on the ‘Write to the Prime Minister’ option on http://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/ to send their mails, received individual acknowledgements to all the mails that were sent.
Swathi, a student of Maharani’s Science College, who was among the students participating in the e-mail campaign, said the students had missed a lot of classes in the last few weeks as a result of the Cauvery agitation. She favoured an early solution to the dispute.
Similarly, Harshitha, another student of the college, said students will find it difficult to appear for examinations if the unrest is prolonged and they are unable to finish their prescribed syllabus on time.
