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Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma connected Wednesday (May 13, 2026) sought an expeditious completion of projects nether a pact signed with the Haryana Government successful February 2024 for getting the State’s afloat stock of 1.119 cardinal cubic metre water as per the 1994 Yamuna Water Agreement. The availability of h2o volition resoluteness the h2o shortage contented successful Shekhawati region.
Rajasthan and Haryana person jointly prepared a elaborate task study (DPR) for the transportation of Rajasthan’s stock of h2o from Hathni Kund barrage successful Haryana done underground pipelines and its consequent utilisation successful areas specified arsenic Sikar, Jhunjhunu and Churu.
Mr. Sharma met his Haryana counterpart Nayab Singh Saini and Union Jal Shakti Minister C.R. Patil during his sojourn to New Delhi and deliberated connected a timeline for laying the pipelines. He besides called for evolving statement implicit the long-delayed Kishau Multipurpose Project connected Tons stream on the Uttarakhand-Himachal Pradesh border, which would supply irrigation and drinking waters to respective bluish States.
The Rajasthan Government has already approved its stock of funds successful the Renukaji, Lakhwar, and Kishau projects connected Yamuna and its tributaries for ensuring the completion of enactment connected time, aft which the State volition get its stock of 201 cardinal cubic metre water.
Mr. Sharma said the Haryana Government had provided accusation astir the bulk of tapping points, pursuing the mentation of DPR, for supplying drinking h2o to the circumstantial areas successful accordance with the agreement. “The DRP volition beryllium submitted soon to the Central Water Commission for initiation of its reappraisal process,” helium said.
If an accusation astir immoderate further tapping points is provided later, it volition beryllium incorporated into the DPR during the review. The Chief Minister said the enactment connected the crushed would commence instantly aft the Central Water Commission’s support of the DPR.
The Chaudhary Kumbharam Lift Canal, built nether the Indira Gandhi Canal Project, astatine contiguous supplies 1,500 cusecs of water to immoderate areas of Shekhawati. The radical successful the portion person been demanding that the State’s afloat stock of water beryllium obtained from Tajewala Head and supplied to Sikar part done pipelines.
