Summary:
It will enable the country to fully utilize the Ravi water as per the Indus Water Treaty by preventing the extra flow waters into Pakistan. Besides, it will also have its own generation capacity of 206 MW and will provide irrigation benefit of 37,173-hectare of cultivable command area to the two states. However, it was halted in 2014 after the J&K government raised certain objections. The project is to be completed within three years.The work on the interstate project, which was approved by the Union government as a ‘national project’ in February 2008 at a cost of Rs 2,285.81 crore (including the irrigation component of Rs 653.97 crores) was started in 2013. The project would also offer irrigation benefits worth Rs 234.72 crore.The agreement was signed between the chief secretaries of Punjab and J&K and Indian Commissioner of Indus Waters of the Union government, in the presence of J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik and minister for water resources Gurbinder Singh Sukh Sarkaria..