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Odisha, Chhattisgarh CMs agree to end Mahanadi water row
Odisha CM Mohan Charan Majhi and Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Dev Sai have agreed to resolve the decade-old Mahanadi water sharing dispute through cooperation and constructive dialogue. The agreement came at a meeting…
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Odisha CM Mohan Charan Majhi and Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Dev Sai have agreed to resolve the decade-old Mahanadi water sharing dispute through cooperation and constructive dialogue. The agreement came at a meeting in New Delhi chaired by Union Water Resources Minister C R Patil on Thursday. The two CMs decided that a committee headed by the Central Water Commission chairman will submit a report to the Mahanadi Tribunal within three months. Odisha alleges that Chhattisgarh blocks the free flow of the Mahanadi by building barrages to supply industries upstream; Chhattisgarh says it takes only its legal share and accuses Odisha of under-utilising its allocation. The central government formed the Mahanadi Water Disputes Tribunal in 2018.
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Both states claim the river is theirs. Odisha says upstream barrages steal water for industry in Chhattisgarh; Chhattisgarh retorts that Odisha does not use what it has. The tribunal has sat since 2018 with no end. A three-month deadline for a central committee report sounds swift, but deadlines in water disputes have a habit of stretching. The real test: will the report be made public, or will it vanish into another round of objections?
Source: thehansindia.com
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