Punjab Water-sharing Agreements

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed hope that India and Pakistan will bilaterally resolve issues over water-sharing, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the waters of Sutlej, Beas and Ravi rivers that rightfully belong to India will be stopped from going waste in Pakistan.

Punjab must share water with Haryana, the Supreme Court ruled today, terming "unconstitutional" a law the state passed in 2004 to end all its water agreements with neighbouring states. The verdict, 12 years after a presidential reference to the court, has sharply escalated politics in Punjab ahead of polls next year.

With election season setting in, political parties in Punjab have launched into a game of one-upmanship over the incomplete Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal that was built to carry surplus water under a water-sharing agreement to neighbouring Haryana.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed hope that India and Pakistan will bilaterally resolve issues over water-sharing, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the waters of Sutlej, Beas and Ravi rivers that rightfully belong to India will be stopped from going waste in Pakistan.

Punjab must share water with Haryana, the Supreme Court ruled today, terming "unconstitutional" a law the state passed in 2004 to end all its water agreements with neighbouring states. The verdict, 12 years after a presidential reference to the court, has sharply escalated politics in Punjab ahead of polls next year.

With election season setting in, political parties in Punjab have launched into a game of one-upmanship over the incomplete Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal that was built to carry surplus water under a water-sharing agreement to neighbouring Haryana.