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| Punjab Govt. believes in might is right | | | During the last one decade the Jammu and Kashmir Government has been crying hoarse over sustained injustices it received from the Government of Punjab which has neither released water nor electricity nor any compensation which it was bound to do so under an agreement following the completion of the Thien Dam project.Over the years the Jammu and Kashmir Government has been seeking Rs.8,000 crores as annual compensation in lieu of Punjab Government's refusal to release water and electricity to Jammu and Kashmir which it was supposed to do after large chunks of land within the Jammu border belt had been occupied for building the Dam and the power project. What is surprising is that the successive central Governments have not bothered to intervene. And a stage has reached when the Kashmir Government has been complaining of injustice from Punjab.And Chief Minister,Omar Abdullah,grabbed the opportunity of raising the issue before UPA chairperson,Sonia Gandhi,when she laid the foundation stone of a cable bridge at Kathua which is a few furlongs away from the Thien Dam project.
Chief minister Omar Abdullah has conveyed to the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi about the “injustice the state was facing” due to denial of its share of water and electricity from Ranjit Sagar Dam, constructed on the river Ravi by the neighbouring Punjab government.
Chief Minister strongly pleaded compensation for the losses suffered by Jammu and Kashmir, while apprising Sonia of the denial of water for irrigation and its share of electricity by the Punjab Government. He described the denial of its share of water and power as one of the many instances of ‘injustices’ being meted out to the state over the past sixty years, The state of Jammu and Kashmir has been subjected to injustice on many accounts and one of them is the denial of its share of water and electricity from the Shahpur Kandi Barrage despite the fact that maximum land beneath it belongs to J&K, Omar has conveyed to Sonia Gandhi.. Under the agreement, Punjab was to share 1100 cusecs of water with Jammu and Kashmir, and also supply 20 percent of the electricity generated from the dam to the state in lieu of the sixty percent land under it.
After over ten years of commissioning of the mega-power project over Ranjt Sagar Dam also known as Thien Dam in Jammu and Kashmir, the government claimed compensation of Rs 8000 crores for its share of water and power from Punjab.Notably, Punjab has cancelled all the bilateral agreements on sharing of water and electricity with Jammu and Kashmir through a legislation passed by its assembly in 2004. The power project on Thien dam started generating electricity in 2000.In fact the Government of Punjab had completed an agreement with Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal.But in 2004 the Punjab Government cancelled all the agreements with Jammu and Kashmir as far as sharing of water and electricity was concerned.As per the 1979 agreement, Punjab was to share 1,100 cusecs of water, 20 per cent of the electricity, and 15 per cent of the jobs the project would generate to Jammu and Kashmir. Nearly 30 years on, Punjab is yet to honour the agreement. This despite the fact that J&K provided about 40 per cent of land for the project. On the other hand, Himachal Pradesh, which provided five to six per cent of land for the project, is getting its share of the electricity. This is share discrimination and the centre has been watching it as a passive spectator. It is time for the Government of India to act and intervene so that Jammu and Kashmir got its share from Punjab. If it cannot do it let the centre compensate the losses. |
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