Border districts of Jammu will be main beneficiaries with sufficient availability of irrigation, power
New Delhi, June 10: ShahpurKandi National Project coming up along the border between Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab, and catering to district Kathua in a big way, vindicates the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) of 1960 as in the absence of this project, the major part of India s share of water from river Ravi was flowing into Pakistan, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh said on Thursday.
In an exclusive media interview about major developmental transformations brought about in Jammu & Kashmir by the Modi government, the Union Minister said that one of the most distinct examples was the ShahpurKandi Project which had been stalled for several decades and it was the personal intervention of Prime Minister NarendraModi which enabled this anomaly to be corrected and the Indus Waters Treaty which was signed by the then Prime Minister in 1960 has been truly followed in letter and spirit only afte