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New Indian Express
11-05-2025
- Business
- New Indian Express
MP, Maharashtra sign MoU for implementing world's largest ground recharge project
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly implement the Tapti Basin Mega Recharge Project, described by officials as the world's largest groundwater recharge scheme. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav and his Maharashtra counterpart Devendra Fadnavis attended the 28th meeting of the Madhya Pradesh-Maharashtra Inter State Control Board here, where both the BJP-ruled state governments inked the MoU. The Tapti Basin Mega Recharge Project is the third major inter-state river project featuring MP in the last five months, after the Ken-Betwa Link Project, which features MP and UP, and Parbati-Kalisindh-Chambal Link project, which has participation of MP and Rajasthan. Through the Tapti Basin Mega Recharge Project, three streams of the Tapti river, which originates from Multai in MP, will be developed in collaboration with the Maharashtra government to ensure optimal use of every drop of river water for irrigation in across both the states.
Mint
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Mint
‘Bharat ka paani, Bharat ke haq me bahega': PM Modi's swipe at Pakistan after suspending Indus Waters Treaty
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday highlighted the significance of the Indus Waters Treaty suspension in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir. The PM said, "Pehle Bharat ke haq ka paani bhi bahar ja raha tha, ab Bharat ka paani, Bharat ke haq me bahega, Bharat ke haq mai rukega aur Bharat ke hi kaam aayega." (Earlier, even the water that rightfully belonged to India was flowing out of the country. Now, India's water will flow for India, will be retained for India, and will be used for India's own needs). India has suspended the Indus Waters Treaty, a decades-old agreement with Pakistan governing the shared use of key rivers. India suspended the water-sharing pact that ensures supply to 80 per cent of Pakistani farms after it identified two of the three assailants in an attack that killed 26 people in Kashmir as Pakistanis. PM Modi was speaking at an ABP News event. "For decades, the water of our rivers has been a subject of tension and conflict, but our government, in collaboration with the state governments, has launched a massive campaign to link the rivers. The Ken-Betwa Link Project and the Parvati-Kalisindh Chambal Link Project will benefit millions of farmers," PM Modi added. All gates of the Baglihar Dam, a key hydroelectric power project on the Chenab River in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district, remain closed, even as a limited volume of water continues to flow downstream. The Baglihar Dam, a key hydroelectric power project on the Chenab River, has been at the centre of past disputes between India and Pakistan under the Indus Waters Treaty framework. Pakistan alleged that India has almost entirely stopped the flow of water across the border through the Chenab river as fears of a clash between the two neighbours mount following the terror attack in Pahalgam. Since Sunday morning, the water flow has been throttled by almost 90 per cent of the usual volume that passes to Pakistan, according to Muhammad Khalid Idrees Rana, spokesman for Pakistan's Indus River System Authority. The nation had anticipated water supplies to farms would be short by a fifth for the next two months, even before this curtailment, he said.
