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| Pakistan's hostility comes in the way of diversion of project | | | Pakistan has been a potential enemy an d this spreads to water diversion programme. The hostility is not confined to Kashmir but to water divesion also. The India-Pakistan hostility is likely to cast shadow on the ambitious Chenab water diversion project as Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Centre are yet to reach an agreement to fund the scheme, which aims at ending the perennial water crisis facing nearly three million people in J&K. The project, first conceptualised in the late 1980s, and a detailed project report (DPR) formulated in 2008 is pending with the Department of Economic Affairs, which comes under the Union Ministry of Finance, for the last two years.
After the 2016 Uri terror attack, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Centre had announced speedy clearance and funding for the project and other schemes on western rivers (Chenab, Indus and Jhelum) and eastern ones (Sutlej, Ravi and Beas) covered under the Indus Water Treaty, 1960. It indicates that Pakistan is interested in violating the Indus water Treaty The Centre had decided to approach JICA for funding the scheme after Asian Development Bank declined to finance it.
"There is no clarity regarding the reasons for the delay in getting funds from JICA. Technically, there is no problem in the plan but the reason for the reason can be clarified only by the Centre," said a senior Public Health Engineering Department official. Japan does not spoil peaceful relations with Pakistan and that should have been the reason for delay in releasing of the funds there could be another reason that Japan is growing through economic crisis that could have been the reason for stalling the funds. Yes, the way Pakistan has been blocking the project means that Pakistan is not interested in resolving the water shortage problem facing the people of Jammu and Kashmir. |
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