A year-and-half after India started work on an 850mw hydropower project on Chenab river, Pakistan has objected to the design of the dam in J&K, sources said Tuesday.
This was one of the major points of discord during the three-day meeting between India and Pakistan on the Indus Water Treaty, which took place in New Delhi from February 1 to 3.
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While the Pakistan side was led by Mirza Asif Beg, the Indian delegation was headed by Indus Water Commissioner K Vohra. They had last met in August 2014 in Islamabad. According to sources privy to the discussions, the Pakistan side raised objections to the “design of the dam”, and said it was not in conformity with the Indus Water Treaty of 1960. Officials said the Indian side had been asked by their Pakistan counterparts to “address” their concerns or else, they would move for “third-party arbitration”. Former PM Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi had laid the foundation stone for the project in June 2013.
The project is located on river Chenab near Drabshala village in Kishtwar district of Jammu & Kashmir.
Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism ‘2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-August, 2021. ... Read More
