Rajasthan Govt to seek Centre's help

  • 11/04/2006

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)

The Rajasthan Government will seek Centre's intervention in order to impress Haryana for providing the State its fair share of Yamuna water under the 1994 Agreement. Chief Minister Vasudhara Raje will raise the issue in the meeting of Upper Yamuna River Board. Union Water Resource Minister Saifudin Soz will preside over the meeting. Under the agreement between the five States of Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi and Himachal Pradesh, Haryana is supposed to provide 1.119BCM of Yamuna water to Rajasthan from Tajewala headworks and Okhla barrage. To supply the water from those points, Haryana was supposed to construct feeder canals to felicitate channelising the water to Rajasthan. Under the agreement, Rajasthan will bear the cost of construction of the canals.