New Delhi: A meeting of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) has been convened on September 8 in the wake of failure of the monitoring authority to evolve a consensus over distress sharing formula among the member states.

A communication conveying the convening of the meeting by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, chairman of the Authority, was received by the Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna, who has been camping in Delhi.

Besides Krishna, the Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry are members of the Authority.

PTI