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| Review Indus Water Treaty, demands CPI (M) | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Apr 21- Demanding review of the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) between India and Pakistan, the Communist Party of India (M) today alleged that the Jammu and Kashmir was incurring recurring loss of Rs 65 billion annually due to this treaty.
The IWT between India and Pakistan should be reviewed as the state has been unable to harness the full hydel potential, the CPI (M) state secretary Mohammad Yousuf Targami, MLA, said in a statement here today.
‘I had initiated a short duration discussion in Legislative Assembly in 2002, urging Central government to safeguard the economic interests of the state as it was bearing a recurring loss of Rs 65 billion annually due to IWT’, he said.
Tarigami said the state can not harness its 15000 MW power generation potential due to the treaty and concerted efforts made to persuade the Centre to compensate these losses have been futile. He urged that Jammu and Kashmir be accorded a participatory status so that it could get additional power generated from the Ravi, Beas and Sutlej rivers for its own requirements. We can't make an optimum use of water of the Indus, Chenab and Jehlum rivers for power generation and irrigation, he said and added we can not raise dams and reservoirs for storing water which could be utilized during the lean period.
This goes against the interests of our State, he added.
On outsourcing of operation and maintenance of Bhagliar power project to NHPC, though for a limited period of time, Tarigami said, besides being a costlier affair, it generates apprehensions among masses. We should raise requisite level of expertise within our state by training our own engineers and technicians to run such sophisticated hydroelectric plants, he said adding that till we achieve this goal, we should call engineers and other allied staff on deputation basis.
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