Rajasthan Chief minister Ashok Gehlot has raised a demand from the Modi government to intervene on the issue of inter-state agreements for distribution of Yamuna waters and ensure that Haryana releases the allocated share of water for Rajasthan from Tajewala headworks.
Gehlot raised the issue before Union water resources minister Nitin Gadkari, in whose presence he signed an MOU along with CMs of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh on Renuka Ji Dam Project.
Rajasthan will get 9.3 per cent water from the storage under this project.
Gehlot said that Haryana government had not agreed upon this rightful demand of Rajasthan since past 24 years.
Similarly, the state was not getting its allocated share of water for Bharatpur district from Okhala headworks," he said.
The CM apprised Gadkari that Rajasthan was continuously working with Haryana government since 2003 for signing an agreement to take the allocated share of water from Tajewala headworks as per MoU signed in 1994 between the five states.
Rajasthan is not getting its rightful water share even from the Okhala headworks for Bharatpur district.
He further asked the Central government to direct Haryana and Uttar Pradesh governments to release Rajasthan’s share of water and stop its illegal usage in their respective areas.
Gehlot said, the objections raised by Madhya Pradesh government on ambitious Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project (ERCP) were also wrong.
This project would make drinking and irrigation water available for 13 districts of Rajasthan including Jhalawar, Baran, Kota, Bundi, Sawai Madhopur, Ajmer, Tonk, Jaipur, Dausa, Karauli, Alwar, Bharatpur and Dholpur.