JAMMU: New
Delhi was mulling the option of
blocking 100,000 million acre feet of
water from River
Ravi flowing into Pakistan, reported foreign media.
It is also planning to allow the states of Held Kashmir and Punjab to share the
water equally and has decided to share burden of occupied territory by constructing barrage and remaining part of Ranjit Sagar Dam.
The media report quoting sources said the Indian government had agreed to fully fund the construction of the barrage and remaining part of dam at Ranjit Sagar, located in Gurdaspur district, constructed on the canal from Shahpur Kandi Barrage to Madhopur Headworks, downstream of the existing Ranjit Sagar Dam.
The sources said New
Delhi took the step of
blocking 100,000 million acre feet
water every year under the Indus
water Treaty (IWT).
“The
water will be shared equally by Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab,” they said, adding the
water would be utilised in the barrage and dam and irrigation of 100,500 acre Kandi belt of Kathua and Samba districts of Jammu region. The sources said the construction of barrage, dam and canal would block the flow of
water which was to be utilised for irrigation purposes by the two states.
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