251 Sutlej Yamuna Link
canal:
Haryana minister’s threat
to stop water to Delhi is lame, ineffectual,
says Kejriwal government
Eyeing much relief after
the opening of the SYL, Haryana ministers were
quick to slam Kejriwal.
Written by Sweta Dutta |
New Delhi | Updated: March 19, 2016 3:53 am
Even as a debate raged over
Haryana Agriculture Minister Om Prakash
Dhankar’s “open letter” to Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal threatening to “no longer provide water
to Delhi”, a calmness prevailed in Water
Resources Minister Kapil Mishra’s office Friday.
Mishra, and almost everyone in the CM’s office,
dismissed the letter as “lame” and
“ineffectual”.
Kejriwal drew Dhankar’s ire
after he clarified during a tour of Punjab that
he stood against the construction of the Sutlej
Yamuna Link (SYL) canal as “Punjab did not have
enough water to share with other states”.
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Eyeing much relief after
the opening of the SYL, Haryana ministers were
quick to slam Kejriwal.
“Haryana provides 0.2
million acre-feet water to Delhi by its main
line canal which reaches Delhi through the
Narwana branch of the West Yamuna canal system.
Due to this burden borne for Delhi, Haryana
could not get its share of 496 cusecs of water.
In addition to this, Haryana also supplies 330
cusec water from the Yamuna canal to Delhi,”
Dhankar wrote in the letter that was posted on
his official Twitter handle Wednesday.
“Seeing your stand
(opposing the construction of SYL canal in
Punjab), Haryana will not be able to deliver
your share of water in Delhi since you have
stood against the interests of the farmers and
people of Haryana. For Delhi’s water
requirement, please build your own separate
canal from Nangal Dam to Tajewala, so that Delhi
gets water from your efforts.”
The letter, expected to
create ripples in the Delhi government, has been
dismissed by ministers. “The letter means
nothing… it is absolutely ineffectual. This is
an attempt to divert public attention from the
internal troubles in the Haryana government.
Their government is falling apart and the best
way to divert attention was to write something
this ridiculous. The Yamuna is no one’s private
property and if water is being channeled through
a canal that runs across Haryana to reach Delhi,
what we are drawing is on a Supreme Court
directive and not a personal favour,” said
Mishra.
“Will Dhankar actually
disrupt water supply to Delhi and inconvenience
the Prime Minister and the President? Let us see
if he manages to do that.”
Mishra’s response comes
weeks after the acute water crisis following
damage to the Munak Canal. “I can assure
residents in Delhi that their taps will not run
dry. At least not on account of this minister’s
letter,” he said.
Delhi draws roughly 1,200
cusecs of water from Haryana through the Munak
Canal and the Western Yamuna Canal Main Line.
Together they make for 70 per cent of Delhi’s
water supply.
The remaining comes from
Uttar Pradesh. Officials said the government had
roughly invested Rs 1,500 crore on the
construction of the Munak Canal and the Haryana
government has little control over disrupting
supply.
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