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This is an archive article published on April 1, 1999

It’s getting more than its share of water: Haryana

CHANDIGARH, March 31: Haryana today strongly refuted allegations it had stopped releasing Yamuna water to Delhi from the Tajewala Headwor...

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CHANDIGARH, March 31: Haryana today strongly refuted allegations it had stopped releasing Yamuna water to Delhi from the Tajewala Headworks.

Haryana Irrigation Minister Harsh Kumar said the National Capital Territory was getting more than its share of water, as determined under the MoU signed on May 12, 1994. “We are not politicising the issue. The supply to the Capital is presently 93 per cent in excess of its share of 255 cusecs per day,” he said. He added the state was supplying Yamuna water to Delhi as per the SC orders on February 1996. At present, Haryana was releasing 491 cusecs of Yamuna water per day to the Capital, he claimed.

About the Nangloi Water Treatment Plant, he said the state at no stage had agreed to supply any additional Yamuna water for the new plant and there was no question of back-tracking.

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