Deal shelved
the Chhattisgarh government has decided to cancel the agreement under which a project to supply water from Sheonath river to factories was leased out to a private company. At a high-level meeting on April 2, chief minister Ajit Jogi instructed the advocate general, Chhattisgarh State Industrial Development Corporation (csidc) and the departments of water resources, public health engineering and legal affairs to scrap the deal immediately. The departments are yet to submit their reports. The deal had become the rallying point for groups opposed to privatisation of water supply, who termed it as the