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Centre to fast-track Indus irrigation and power projects | India News

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 Rattled Pak Army's New Threat To India Over Indus Treaty Abeyance

NEW DELHI: Centre has identified arsenic precedence irrigation and powerfulness generation, among different developmental projects, successful the Indus River Basin successful sync with its resoluteness to utilise further waters of occidental rivers - Indus, Jhelum and Chenab - successful J&K and its neighbouring states successful a time-bound manner.The determination connected however to streamline these projects by infusing further backing nether the "all hands connected deck" attack was taken during an inter-ministerial gathering - involving officials of home, MEA, powerfulness & Jal Shakti ministries - connected the contented Tuesday. It was the archetypal specified gathering aft keeping the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty successful abeyance pursuing Pahalgam attack.

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"It was decided to fast-track the implementation of pending projects - beryllium it irrigation canals, navigation projects oregon under-construction powerfulness projects - done precedence backing successful the mean and long-term," a root said.

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He said since the pact is suspended, India is not nether work to stock h2o travel information oregon basal task item with Pakistan, and it makes it easier to bash flushing to wide sediments from reservoirs of existing hydro-power projects to augment their retention capacities without informing the neighbouring country.India precocious did flushing and desilting arsenic a short-term measurement to store further h2o successful reservoirs of 2 run-of-the-river hydro-power projects - Baglihar and Salal - connected the Chenab successful J&K.

"Power ministry representatives person been asked to velocity up works connected 4 under-construction hydro-power projects and enactment connected getting clearances for different 3 by holding consultations with experts," the root added.Out of an estimated powerfulness imaginable of astir 20,000 MW, which could beryllium harnessed from powerfulness projects connected occidental rivers, lone astir 4,000 MW capableness of hydro-power procreation units has, truthful far, been constructed successful India.

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