Rajasthan taking steps to bring excess Yamuna waters during monsoon

The BJP authorities successful Rajasthan has started preparing a elaborate task study (DPR) for operation of a proscription strategy to divert immoderate of the waters flowing wastefully from the Yamuna stream during the monsoon to the State. The DPR volition beryllium sent soon to the Central Water Commission.

Water Resources Minister Suresh Singh Rawat said astatine the ninth gathering of the Upper Yamuna Review Committee successful NOIDA connected Thursday (November 27, 2025) that the enactment orders for the DPR had been issued and it was being prepared successful coordination with a associated task unit comprising the members from Rajasthan and Haryana.

“The caller strategy volition not lone guarantee due utilisation of h2o that flows wastefully during floods, but volition besides guarantee h2o information successful assorted districts by bringing h2o for the aboriginal projects,” Mr. Rawat said. Union Jal Shakti Minister C.R. Patil presided implicit the meeting, which was attended by the Ministers and officials from Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi.

The determination to divert excess Yamuna waters to Rajasthan follows an statement signed with the Haryana government successful February 2024 for getting the State’s afloat stock of 1.119 cardinal cusec metre h2o arsenic per the 1994 Yamuna Water Agreement. The availability of h2o volition resoluteness the contented of shortage of drinking and irrigation h2o successful 4 districts of Shekhawati region.

Mr. Rawat said the Shekhawati region, situated astatine the borderline of Thar desert, had been facing h2o scarcity since long, and the associated task unit was preparing an enactment program to proviso the Yamuna waters to the distant areas successful Sikar, Churu, Jhunjhunu, and parts of Nagaur district.

The Minister urged the Centre to see the Renukaji, Lakhwar and Kishau projects connected Yamuna and its tributaries successful Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand arsenic integral parts of nationalist projects for diverting the h2o from Hathini Kund Barrage to Rajasthan, and supply fiscal assistance. The State authorities has already approved its stock of funds successful the 3 projects for ensuring the completion of enactment connected time.