2007 saw India's win over Pakistan on the Baglihar dam issue
Inter-state water disputes continued to plague the country in 2007 but the year would go down in history as the one in which India won in a major dispute with Pakistan over the two-decade-old Baglihar dam issue.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: Inter-state water disputes continued to plague the country in 2007 but the year would go down in history as the one in which India won in a major dispute with Pakistan over the two-decade-old Baglihar dam issue.
India stole the march over Pakistan in the early part of the outgoing year when the World Bank gave a green signal to Balighar power project in electricity-starved Jammu and Kashmir, rejecting Islamabad's objections.
The go-ahead to the 450 MW project came after two years of arbitration in a two-decade-old dispute that had been adding to the woes in relations between the two neighbours.
The project on Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir had got caught in the dispute after Pakistan alleged that it violated the 1960 Indus Water Treaty between the two countries.
After years of talks, the two countries failed to resolve the dispute bilaterally and Pakistan in 2005 approached the World Bank for its intervention.
The decision on the Baglihar project is expected to have an impact on another Indo-Pak water dispute -- the Kishenganga. Pakistan has threatened to take this dispute also to the World Bank but India is confident of getting a verdict similar to that in the Baglihar dispute.
India stole the march over Pakistan in the early part of the outgoing year when the World Bank gave a green signal to Balighar power project in electricity-starved Jammu and Kashmir, rejecting Islamabad's objections.
The go-ahead to the 450 MW project came after two years of arbitration in a two-decade-old dispute that had been adding to the woes in relations between the two neighbours.
The project on Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir had got caught in the dispute after Pakistan alleged that it violated the 1960 Indus Water Treaty between the two countries.
After years of talks, the two countries failed to resolve the dispute bilaterally and Pakistan in 2005 approached the World Bank for its intervention.
The decision on the Baglihar project is expected to have an impact on another Indo-Pak water dispute -- the Kishenganga. Pakistan has threatened to take this dispute also to the World Bank but India is confident of getting a verdict similar to that in the Baglihar dispute.
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