Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 31: A three-member team of the Pakistan Indus Water Commission today visited river Jhelum, flood spill channel and Dal lake in Srinagar to check the water levels.
The three-member team of the Pakistan Indus Water Commission, headed by Indus Water Commissioner Shreeraz Jameel Memon, Joint Secretary Ministry of Water and Power in Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Shehzada and Principal Engineer at NESPAK, Syed Mohammad Mehar Ali Shah visited the Dal lake and the river Jhelum today.
The team visited Chattabal Veer, Flood Spill Channel at Padshahi Bagh and Barrage between Dal lake and river Jhelum at Dalgate to check the water levels of Jhelum and Dal lake. The team left for New Delhi for their onward journey to Pakistan this afternoon after having a shikara ride in Dal lake.
The Pakistan team yesterday visited Tulbul Navigation project at Ningli, Wullar project at Adipora Sopore, Baba Shukurdin Watlab, Wullar vantage point at Garoora in Bandipora and Wullar lake to check the water levels of Wullar lake and Jhelum river in North Kashmir.
The Pakistan team checked the levels of water in the river Jhelum, so as to compare it with the discharge of water in it once it enters Pakistan in North Kashmir in Uri area. This was a routine visit as per the terms of the Water treaty.
The visit was part of the Indus Water Treaty signed between India and Pakistan in 1960. Under that treaty, Indian has rights over three rivers – Sutlej, Ravi and Beas – flowing from India into Pakistan and Pakistan has rights over three rivers- Indus, Chenab and Jhelum.
India can build dams for water storage on the Sutlej, Beas and Ravi but no water storage dams can be built on the Indus, Chenab and Jhelum rivers that flow through Jammu and Kashmir.
However, India can build hydro-power projects on Indus, Chenab and Jhelum rivers in the run of the river water.
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