New Delhi [India], June 30 (ANI): Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma on Tuesday hailed the signing of the long-pending Yamuna Water Agreement with Haryana, a day after it was formally signed in New Delhi, calling it a serious breakthrough for the state’s Shekhawati area.
Speaking to reporters in Delhi, Sharma stated, ‘Yesterday, on June 29, a call was reached amongst our Home Minister Amit Shah, Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil, Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, and myself; Rajasthan’s historic Shekhawati area may also obtain water. Yesterday, a serious water-related subject was resolved.’
He emphasised his authorities’s broader efforts to resolve decades-old, stalled tasks for Rajasthan, citing the Ram Jal Setu scheme.
‘In the final two and a half years, options have been discovered for tasks that Rajasthan had been awaiting for many years, and work on these schemes has commenced. An settlement was reached on the Ram Jal Setu scheme–which had lengthy been stalled between Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan–and at this time, work on tasks value Rs 24,000 crore is underway. A historic determination was taken on June 29. Soon after our authorities was shaped, we signed an MoU with the Haryana authorities on February 12, 2024, to make sure Rajasthan receives its rightful share of water–as stipulated in our 1994 settlement, ‘ he stated.
The venture seeks to facilitate the conveyance of Rajasthan’s allotted share of Yamuna waters by means of an underground pipeline system from the Western Yamuna Canal, enabling the State to successfully utilise the water allotted to it underneath the 1994 Memorandum of Understanding on the sharing of utilisable floor waters of the Upper Yamuna Basin.
He credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for resolving a problem that had eluded earlier governments.
‘There have been many cases when Congress governments have been in energy in Rajasthan, Haryana, and on the Centre, but they by no means actually understood our difficulties. I want to thank the Prime Minister for greedy the gravity of Rajasthan’s water disaster,’ stated the CM.
Rajasthan and Haryana on Monday signed the long-awaited Yamuna Water Agreement in New Delhi, ending a three-decade-long impasse and paving the best way for the implementation of a Rs 34,102 crore water infrastructure venture geared toward redefining the water panorama of Rajasthan.
The settlement was signed within the presence of Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah, Union Jal Shakti Minister C R Patil, Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and senior officers from the Centre and each state governments.
According to a launch, the venture will transport Rajasthan’s allotted share of 577 million cubic metres (MCM) of Yamuna water from the Hathnikund Barrage in Haryana to the Hansiawas Reservoir in Churu district by means of a 295.5-kilometre underground pipeline community.
The venture will comprise three pipelines, every measuring 3.6 metres in diameter, together with an inspection motorway, synthetic reservoirs and a contemporary digital water administration system. The venture additionally contains provisions to produce ingesting water to 10 places in Haryana.
The Rajasthan authorities stated the Detailed Project Report (DPR) has been uploaded on the Central Water Commission’s e-PAMS portal, whereas the Haryana authorities has granted in-principle approval for the proposed pipeline alignment.
A devoted Special Purpose Vehicle, the Rajasthan Haryana Yamuna Water Project-SPV (RHYW-SPV), shall be established to supervise the execution, operation and upkeep of the venture. (ANI)