India is working on exercising its rights to stop excess water flowing to Pakistan under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 to irrigate its own lands, Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said. After nine years of negotiations, India and Pakistan signed the Indus Waters Treaty in 1960, with the World Bank also being a signatory. (Photo: Mint)“Apart from that, rivers which flow from our territory and go to Pakistan, what they have got as per the mandate of the Indus Waters Treaty, even there we have potential. “We got the waters of Ravi, Beas and Sutlej; they got the waters of Jhelum, Chenab and Indus. “Under the Indus Waters Treaty, there were six rivers which were divided between both the countries.

Source: Mint July 04, 2021 18:56 UTC