India, Pakistan will hold a two-day meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission in New Delhi, starting tomorrow (29/03/2018), to discuss various issues under the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT).
The six-member Pakistani delegation will be headed by Syed Muhammad Mehar Ali Shah, while India's Indus water commissioner PK Saxena will head the Indian team and will be accompanied by technical experts and a representative of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), sources said.
This will be the 114th meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission (PIC), which should meet at least once a year as per the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), sources said.
A day ahead of the announcement of the PIC meeting, Union Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari categorically said that the Centre is making concerted efforts to stop "water sharing" with Pakistan.
Addressing the concluding session of Agri Leadership Summit 2018 in Rohtak in Haryana yesterday, Gadkari said, "During Partition, India got three rivers but we could not utilise our share of the waters, which kept flowing back to Pakistan. Now, the Centre has decided to stop the flow of the country's due share into Pakistan and utilise it to feed our parched lands."
The Indus Waters Treaty covers water distribution and sharing rights of six rivers--Beas, Ravi, Sutlej, Indus, Chenab and Jhelum. Water from the western rivers are reserved for Pakistan and eastern rivers for India.
The six-member Pakistani delegation will be headed by Syed Muhammad Mehar Ali Shah, while India's Indus water commissioner PK Saxena will head the Indian team and will be accompanied by technical experts and a representative of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), sources said.
This will be the 114th meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission (PIC), which should meet at least once a year as per the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), sources said.
India, Pakistan will hold a two-day meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission in New Delhi
Addressing the concluding session of Agri Leadership Summit 2018 in Rohtak in Haryana yesterday, Gadkari said, "During Partition, India got three rivers but we could not utilise our share of the waters, which kept flowing back to Pakistan. Now, the Centre has decided to stop the flow of the country's due share into Pakistan and utilise it to feed our parched lands."
The Indus Waters Treaty covers water distribution and sharing rights of six rivers--Beas, Ravi, Sutlej, Indus, Chenab and Jhelum. Water from the western rivers are reserved for Pakistan and eastern rivers for India.
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