Maharashtra-Karnataka Water Row: Centre To Probe Almatti Dam, Hippargi Barrage Initiatives
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This resolution comes after the Devendra Fadnavis-led authorities in Maharashtra flagged potential flood danger and water administration challenges as a consequence of Karnataka’s unilateral actions
A key assembly marked a significant growth within the ongoing Maharashtra-Karnataka water dispute. (Picture: News18)
The Centre has initiated an official inquiry into alleged irregularities within the building and proposed top enhance of the Almatti Dam and Hippargi Barrage in Karnataka.
This resolution comes after the Devendra Fadnavis-led authorities in Maharashtra flagged potential flood danger and water administration challenges as a consequence of Karnataka’s unilateral actions.
The important thing assembly on Monday marked a significant growth within the ongoing Maharashtra-Karnataka water dispute. With the Centre now immediately concerned, the main focus will shift to the findings of the Nationwide Dam Security Authority (NDSA) and if Karnataka’s proposals adhere to inter-state water administration norms and ecological steadiness.
Within the assembly held in New Delhi, Union Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil stated the matter will probably be totally investigated by the NDSA. A high-level delegation, led by Maharashtra’s water sources minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, was current on the assembly and later briefed the media on the central authorities’s response.
“The Centre has taken critical observe of our considerations. The Nationwide Dam Security Authority will look into the development and operational inconsistencies in Almatti and Hippargi initiatives. This can be a vital step in direction of safeguarding the pursuits of the individuals of Kolhapur, Sangli, and all the downstream area of Krishna river,” stated Vikhe Patil.
The delegation included Kolhapur guardian minister Prakash Abitkar, co-guardian minister Madhuri Misal, and a number of other MPs and MLAs from flood-prone districts like Kolhapur and Sangli. Additionally current had been chairperson of the Central Water Fee, Maharashtra Water Sources Division Extra Chief Secretary Deepak Kapoor, and Union Jal Shakti Ministry Secretary Debashree Mukherjee.
Karnataka just lately submitted a proposal to boost the total reservoir degree (FRL) of the Almatti Dam from 519.60 m to 524.256 m, a transfer Maharashtra has strongly opposed. Maharashtra has argued that even with the present dam top, large flooding occurred in 2019 and 2021, inflicting devastation throughout its western districts.
The Maharashtra delegation warned that growing the peak might worsen backwater flooding within the Krishna river and its tributaries, lowering pure stream, damaging agricultural land, and disrupting native life.
Vikhe Patil stated the state authorities’s personal research present how Almatti has already affected water retention and stream patterns, particularly in Kolhapur and Sangli.
“The discharge price of floodwaters has drastically slowed down, resulting in extended inundation and rising flood frequencies. These districts now dwell below fixed flood menace,” he stated.
The delegation urged the federal government to intervene earlier than irreversible environmental and human injury takes place and highlighted how Fadnavis had earlier raised a crimson flag, writing an in depth letter to the Centre questioning the dam top enlargement.
“The CM has taken a powerful and clear stand. We’re dedicated to safeguarding our individuals’s lives and livelihoods. We aren’t in opposition to growth, but it surely should not come at the price of human struggling,” he stated.
Distinguished political leaders within the delegation included MPs Shahu Chhatrapati, Vishal Patil, Dhairyasheel Mane, Dhananjay Mahadik, and MLAs Satej Patil, Arun Lad, Dr Vishwajeet Kadam, Rajendra Patil Yadravkar, Sadaabhau Khot, and others.
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