Joining hands to meet future water needs of their states.
Union Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with six states for the construction of the Lakhwar multi-purpose project in the upper Yamuna Basin to deal with the water crisis.
The MoU was signed by the Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh (Yogi Adityanath), Rajasthan (Vasundhara Raje Scindia), Uttarakhand (Trivendra Singh Rawat), Himachal Pradesh (Jai Ram Thakur), Haryana (Manohar Lal Khattar) and Delhi (Arvind Kejriwal).
Under the agreement, the 204-metres high project will be constructed near Uttarakhand’s Lohari village with a live storage capacity of 330.66 million cubic metres (MCM).
“The MoU has been signed to create storage facilities in the upper Yamuna basin to deal with the water crisis between January and June,” Union Minister Gadkari said.
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