NHPC Projects: Mufti wants state compensated
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16/04/2009
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Tribune (New Delhi)
Udhampur: With resentment brewing among residents of Doda and Kishtwar districts over not getting benefits from hydel projects functioning in their areas, the PDP has stepped up its campaign in this connection.
While PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed yesterday demanded the scrapping of, what he called, discriminatory and arbitrary agreements with the NHPC, he demanded today that the state must be compensated for the losses suffered owing to the exploitation of its water resources by the central agencies.
Addressing a series of public meetings in Kishtwar and Doda districts he demanded implementation of the recommendations of the working group headed by former RBI Governor C. Rangarajan. The PDP leader regretted that though Rangarajan had recommended that the NHPC-operated Dulhasti and Salal hydel projects should be handed over to the state government no decision had been taken on these recommendations.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had constituted five working groups to give recommendations for resolving the Kashmir problem.
The Mufti said: