President of the World Bank Ajay Banga. File | Photo Credit: Reuters
The World Bank President Ajay Banga said that the multilateral agency has no role to play outside the Indus Waters contract between India and Pakistan in 1960 for sharing Indus, Jhelum and Chenab.
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“We have no role to play outside the facilitator. There are many speculations on how the World Bank enters and solves the problem, but it’s all bunk beds. The world bank’s role is only as a facilitator,” Pib said in the post of Ajay Bang.
We have no role that plays beyond the facilitator. There are a lot of speculation in the media about how the World Bank enters and solves the problem, but it’s all bunk beds. The role of the World Bank is only as a facilitator
-President of Bank World, Ajay Bangga #Induswatertreats Suspension… pic.twitter.com/6bbizpkf0o
– Pib India (@Pib_india) 9 May 2025
Indus Waters, mediated by the World Bank, has managed the distribution and use of the Indus River and its tributaries between India and Pakistan since 1960.
The Indus river system includes the main river, Indus and its tributaries. Ravi, Beas, Sutlej, Jhelum and Chenab are his left bank tributaries while the Kabul River, the right bank, does not flow through the Indian territory.
Ravi, Beas and Sutlej are referred to as Eastern Greeks, while Indus, Jhelum and Chenab are known as the Western Greeks. The water of this river system is essential for India and Pakistan.
During independence, the boundaries between two newly created nations – India and Pakistan – left Indus and India basin and left India as the upper coast and Pakistan as a lower coast.
Published – May 9, 2025 14:56
