Chandigarh, March 4: Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir have reached out a pact the us resolve issues relating the us the Shahpur Kandi Dam project, proposed the us be built downstream Ranjit Sagar Dam (Thein Dam) on the Ravi in Gurdaspur district. The project comes under the Indus Water Treaty, thus helping India utilise its rights on eastern rivers of the basin.
Disclosing this here on Saturday, a state government spokesperson said the agreement was facilitated by the Union ministry of water resources, also a cosignathe usry in the pact.
Haling the agreement, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said Punjab had always sthe usod for equitable distribution of water resources between the riparian states and he looked forward the us receiving a formal approval from the J&K government soon.
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