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Urgent need to store monsoon water: Haryana

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Irrigation Minister Ajay Singh Yadav met Union Water Resources Minister Saifuddin Soz and Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in New Delhi on Wednesday and apprised them of “urgent need” for creating storage reservoirs in the Yamuna Valley to store surplus water during the monsoon.

According to an official press release here, Capt. Yadav told the Central Ministers that this water would be used to meet the demand for drinking water, irrigation and power in the Yamuna basin States. He said at present a substantial quantity of water went waste during the monsoon as there is no dam over the Yamuna.The Minister pointed out that work on the Lakhwar Dam project on the Yamuna in Uttarakhand was stopped in 1992 and arbitration proceedings have been going on since then. Work on the Kishau Dam project on the Tons river had also not been started so far and clearances from the Central Electricity Authority, Central Water Commission, Union Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs were yet to be obtained, he added.

Capt. Yadav said Haryana was ready to bear the cost of these projects in proportion to its share in the Yamuna in keeping with the MoU of May 12, 1994, among the partner States. He requested the Union Water Resources Minister to convene a meeting of the Upper Yamuna Review Committee under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister to speed up construction of these two projects. He also suggested that a board for construction and maintenance of these projects on the Yamuna be constituted on the pattern of the Bhakra Beas Management Board.

He also raised the issue of pollution being received in the Mewat region of Haryana through the Yamuna waters from Delhi and urged him to take up the matter with the Delhi Government.

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