A curated repository of resources relating to the areas of research pursued by TREADS. It includes both public resources and databases created as part of and to inform the research undertaken by TREADS.
The database documents water management institutions, their historical origins, their guiding legal instruments, and their functional scope — at the international, national and subnational scale in India and South Asia.
The database compiles various water-related legislations in India and South Asia, including notifications, orders, bill, acts etc.
This Monitor serves as a tracker for various water-related conflict and cooperation episodes in India and the wider Indian subcontinent.
These databases inform the wide-ranging water-related research undertaken by the TREADS Initiative on areas such as water conflicts and cooperation, water and federalism, river rejuvenation, river-centric urban planning etc.
Article 262 of the Constitution of India has distinctive provisions for adjudicating inter-State river water disputes. It provides for the barring of the jurisdiction of courts, including that of the Supreme Court of India. The Inter-State River Disputes Act, 1956, passed in furtherance of these provisions, bars the jurisdiction of the courts and provides for constituting exclusive tribunals for adjudicating the disputes. Further, the tribunals' awards carry the force of a Supreme Court decree. Yet, the Supreme Court frequently engages with the disputes, ostensibly restricting itself to interpreting the tribunals' decisions and giving effect to them. The database is a part of the comprehensive analysis of this relationship between the Supreme Court and inter-State river water disputes resolution produced as part of the research by the MoJS Research Chair at the CPR. Producing this database is one of the first steps. It presents a compilation of the various pronouncements of the Supreme Court since 1956, cataloguing its nuanced engagement with the subject.