The official was one of the three mints about the government plan to connect the Indus and Chenab Greeks in J&K to get more water from the Indus system, now that India has suspended its participation in Indus with Pakistan.
The 1960 water sharing pact after this year’s armed conflict between India and Pakistan came under tension.
The aim of India is to solve the lack of water in Delhi together to meet the requirement for irrigation in Haryana, Pandjab and Rajasthane by diverting more water from the Indian basin. This would be done by connecting the proposed Indus-Chenab link with the connected RAVI-Beas-Sutlej channel system, the above people said.
In the main rest on channels and tunnels, the project would connect Indus and Chenab in the first instance. This would be followed by the connection of Chenab with three rivers – Ravi, Beas and Sutlej – which feeds on the pandjab.
Punjab and Haryan are considered a bread basket of India.
From there, the water would be routed to the canal 214 km Sutlej-Yamuna Link (Syl)-In 60s of the 20th century, but still in construction-then to the thirsty capital in Delhi.
IWT already allows India unlimited use of waters from Ravi, Beas and Sutlej. It provides Pakistani control over the other three Greeks of the Indus, Chenab and Jhelum River Basin River Basin.
Indus begins in Tibet, enters India near Ladakh, and then continues west to Pakistan. Using water from Indus, the new Delhi can limit the water available to Pakistan.
“After the interconnection of Indus and Chenab with the Ravi-Beas-Sutlej system, this plan conceives the extension of the link to the Sutlej-Yamuna connection and converts water to Yamuna, which can alleviate water problems in the national capital,” said one of three people who welcome anonymity.
India on June 16 reported that the center began a study of preliminary feasibility for the construction of 113 km of channel to redirect 18-24 billion cubic meters (BCM) water from Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) to Pandjab, Haryana and Rajasthan.
The study would take into account the ecological, topographic and engineering viability of the project by passing through the Himalayan terrain.
The Indian plan to strengthen the deviation of water from the Indus basin also includes the acceleration of the construction of a multipurpose project (hydropower, irrigation, drink) on the UJH River – the main tributary of Ravi – in Kathhua J&K to maximize its share in its share of the country.
The government suspended Indus waters in order to control the flow of water to Pakistan as part of its diplomatic reaction to April 22, Pahalgam attack.
Task
However, it is a long way from the drawing boards of the ministries to the farm Pandjab, Haryan and Rajasthan.
The whole project would require two channels or a structure of a large capacity such as Narmada-Major 500 km channel This is the backbone of the largest Indian project of integrated irrigation and drinking water, the Sardar Sarovar project on the Narmada River, the second person said.
Furthermore, the connection of the Ravi-Beas-Sutlej system with the Sutlej-Yamuna clutch with insufficient construction may require excavating along the Yamuna River to increase its ability to absorb excess water, said AK Singh, NTPC CEO at Hydro’s headquarters.
“These are long pregnancy projects. The terrain, the required acquisition and relocation of communities, various permits, such as the environment, forest, wild animals, etc., and the preparation of a detailed project report must be taken into account. NHPC.
He said it would take at least 6 to 10 years to complete the planning, also when all parties are on the same page. In addition, a political commitment is an essential political commitment.
Costs are another factor: the project of this scale would require an investment £2-3 trillions.
“The projects of the connection of the river are very demanding on capital. The center will have to come up with the budget allocation. State companies alone may not be able to insert the required Kapex,” the official said with a hydro-powerful company on condition of anonymity.
Questions sent to the Ministry of Jal Shakti and Power, NHPC and SJVN remained unanswered until the press.
Another problem is the condition of Syl, which has been stuck for decades.
For the first time the conceptualized in 1966, the construction of 214 km Syl was launched in 1982 and stopped in 1990 after the killing of project engineers and some militants, in the middle of the protests against the Pandjáb project. The work was stuck in the middle of a long -term dispute between Pandjab and Haryana over a quantum of water to be shared.
In 2020, the Supreme Court asked both states to negotiate and move forward with construction. Interviews take place without much movement on Earth. The last meeting took place on July 9 among the main ministers Pandjab and Haryana and the Minister of the Union for the Jal Shakti CR Patil in the capital of the national city. It remained inconclusive.
The Minister of Water Resources in Punjab Barinder Kumar Goyal said Mint that to meet the needs of his state’s water must be properly used by the suspension of Indus water.
“If the center agrees to share Chenab water with a pandjab and meet our water needs, then we would be ready to share Chenab water with other countries, such as Haryana – whether through a channel or other modes, depending on the feasibility report.”
Water diplomacy
In June, addressed by members of the Bharatiya Janata party in Madhya Pradesh, he said that Interior Minister Amit Shah said that the Indus Greeks would be transported to Sri Ganganagar in Rajasthan and that the irrigation equipment would benefit large areas.
Recently, the Chief Minister of Pandjab, Bhagwant Singh Mann, also said that the decision to keep IWT in Abeyance opens the possibility of greater use of water from Indu, Jhelum and Chenab in India.
Mann said that the waters of the western rivers should be assigned a priority panda and that new storage dams should be built upstream from Bhakra and Pong dams.
The government has already set a plan for rapid trace projects by the sub -range of hydroelectric energies in J&K and developed new projects with large storage capacity and low -level culverts on the Indus, Jhelum and Chenab, Mint reported July 15.
The Indus basin has the highest capacity of the water energy production in the ground – 32GW – of which only 15 GW is functional.
“The proposed step is a mutual situation for Punjab and Haryan.
“The proposed linking of the indus and chenab with the satluj-yamuna link is very flies. However, The Project Will Take A Long Time to Be Completed as It Involves Tunnelling, Building Dams, and Canals. Also, There Woul IFTIKAR A. DRABU, and Srinagar-Based Civil Engineer Who Has Worked on Hydropower Projects, Including Uri, Kishanganga, and Dulhasti.
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