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| ‘Don’t know about river flow to Pak’ | | | Agencies
NEW DELHI: The government does not have any record of "exact quantity of water" flowing from different rivers from India to Pakistan.
The revelation came through a response of Ministry of Water Resources to an RTI query, which said the "exact quantum" of waters flowing down to the neighbouring country was not known.
"River Ravi flows from Jammu and Kashmir into Punjab before entering Pakistan. The Beas confluences with the Sutlej at Harike and the combined river Sutlej enters Pakistan. Some tributaries or nallahs of these rivers cross over directly from India to Pakistan. The exact quantum of waters flowing down to Pakistan is not available," the Ministry said.
According to the Indus Waters Treaty, 1960, between New Delhi and Islamabad, waters from eastern rivers -- Sutlej, Beas and Ravi -- stand allocated to India and those from western rivers namely Indus, Jhelum and Chenab largely to Pakistan.
Exercising his Right to Information, Vivek Garg, an advocate had filed an application to the Water Resources Ministry seeking details on quantity of water from different eastern and western rivers flowing to Pakistan. He also sought the details of efforts made by the Government of India to stop this water and expenditure incurred on it.
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