{"id":164143,"date":"2020-01-23T19:11:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T19:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/?p=164143"},"modified":"2020-01-23T19:11:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T19:11:02","slug":"party-meet-resolves-unanimously-not-allow-transfer-punjabs-river-water-non-basin-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/164143","title":{"rendered":"All-Party meet resolves unanimously not allow transfer of Punjab\u2019s River water to non-basin areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; background: white;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; color: red;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Resolution seeks amendments to proposed Inter State River Disputes Act <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Chandigarh, Jan 23 (Punjab Post Bueau) &#8211; Expressing grave concern over the state\u2019s critical water situation, an all-<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-164144\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PPNJ2301202001.jpg\" alt=\"PPNJ2301202001\" width=\"800\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PPNJ2301202001.jpg 800w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PPNJ2301202001-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PPNJ2301202001-272x125.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>party meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, on Thursday demanded reassessment of the state\u2019s water availability and unanimously resolved that the Government of India should ensure that Punjab river water is not in any way transferred from basin to non-basin areas of the state\u2019s three rivers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">All parties also unanimously demanded suitable amendments to the proposed Inter State River Water Disputes Act to set up a new tribunal, to ensure that Punjab gets adequate water \u201cin a just and equitable manner in keeping with its total demand and securing livelihood of the future generations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The RESOLUTION read: \u201cPunjab does not have surplus water and is facing a threat of desertification with declining availability of its river water and fast depleting groundwater. State\u2019s groundwater that meets 73 per cent of its irrigation requirements, has declined to alarming levels, threatening the livelihood of farmers and other poor people.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u201cIn such a situation, it is unanimously resolved that the Government of India should ensure that Punjab river water is not in any way transferred from basin to non-basin areas of three rivers, namely Ravi, Sutlej and Beas as per internationally accepted riparian principle. Further, alternatives should be ascertained, including amendments to the proposed Inter State River Water Disputes Act to set up a new tribunal for a complete de novo assessment of availability of river waters before final decision, to harness, develop and provide adequate water to Punjab in a just and equitable manner in keeping with its total demand and securing livelihood of the future generations.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The resolution was moved by Cabinet Minister Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria at the all-party meeting convened by the Chief Minister to ascertain ways to address the state\u2019s continuously aggravating water crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Though the resolution did not mention SYL, leaders of all political parties, including the Akali Dal and AAP, termed any move to construct the canal fatal for the state. All the parties hailed the Chief Minister\u2019s initiative in convening the meeting on the critical issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: start; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; color: #333333;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resolution seeks amendments to proposed Inter State River Disputes Act Chandigarh, Jan 23 (Punjab Post Bueau) &#8211; Expressing grave concern over the state\u2019s critical water situation, an all-party meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, on Thursday demanded reassessment of the state\u2019s water availability and unanimously resolved that the Government of India should ensure &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-english"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>All-Party meet resolves unanimously not allow transfer of Punjab\u2019s River water to non-basin areas | Punjab Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/164143\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"All-Party meet resolves unanimously not allow transfer of Punjab\u2019s River water to non-basin areas | Punjab Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Resolution seeks amendments to proposed Inter State River Disputes Act Chandigarh, Jan 23 (Punjab Post Bueau) &#8211; 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