New Delhi [India], September 6 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday requested the Union Jal Shakti Ministry to name a gathering between the governments of Punjab and Haryana to resolve the Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) Canal dispute.
A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Abhay S Oka and Vikram Nath requested the central authorities to carry a gathering between each the States and granted 4 months to file a report on the assembly.
The apex court docket now posted the matter for listening to on January 19, 2023, and sought a progress report on the difficulty.
The apex court docket was listening to the SYL Canal dispute between Haryana and Punjab.
During the listening to, the bench noticed that pure sources need to be shared, notably in view of the safety situation in Punjab.
“Water is a natural resource and living beings must learn to share it, whether it is individual or state. The matter cannot be looked at from the point of view of only one city or state. It’s the natural wealth to be shared and how it is to be shared is a mechanism to be worked out,” Justice Kaul stated.
Attorney General for India KK Venugopal showing for the Ministry, stated that the Centre is attempting to carry collectively the states of Punjab and Haryana.
Venugopal additional stated that Punjab is just not cooperating within the matter.
“The Centre had written a letter to the new Chief Minister of Punjab in April but there was no response,” he stated.
To this, the bench directed all of the events to cooperate. “Either they sit and talk or the Court will order the execution of the decree. These issues should not be allowed to fester… It will allow forces that may not be amicable to the country to act and interfere,” noticed the highest court docket.
On July 28, 2020, the highest court docket had requested the Chief Ministers of each states to make an try to resolve the difficulty amicably.
The Ministry had earlier held a number of conferences which had been attended by Chief Secretaries of the 2 states however remained inconclusive.
The drawback stems from the controversial 1981 water-sharing settlement after Haryana was shaped out of Punjab in 1966. For efficient allocation of water, the SYL canal was to be constructed and the 2 states had been required to assemble their parts inside their territories.
While Haryana constructed its portion of the canal, after the preliminary part, Punjab stopped the work, resulting in a number of instances.
In 2004, the Punjab authorities had handed a legislation that unilaterally cancelled the SYL settlement and different such pacts, nonetheless, in 2016, the apex court docket had struck down this legislation. Later, Punjab went forward and returned the acquired land–on which the canal was to be constructed–to the landowners. (ANI)