In our commitment to
fast track utilization of India's rights under Indus Waters Treaty, the DPR of
Ujh Project was submitted by Central Water Commission to Shri Sham Lal
Choudhary Minister of PHE, Irrigation & Flood Control of Jammu &
Kashmir yesterday. This project will store around 0.65 MAF of waters of river
Ujh (a tributary of river Ravi) to irrigate 30,000 hact. and produce more than
200 MW of hydropower. The DPR was fast tracked pursuant to decision taken in
the meeting of the Task Force on Indus Waters chaired by Principal Secretary to
PM in Dec 2016. This will help India to utilize a part of the flow that
presently goes across border unutilized.

Samir/jk