Excelsior Correspondent
KISHTWAR, Jan 28: A Pakistani delegation arrived here today on two days visit to inspect dam site of Pakal Dul Hydro Electric Project at Drang Doru on Chenab river.
Pakistan’s Indus Commissioner Syed Mohammad Mehar Ali Shah along with Advisors Ushamn E Ghani, Joint Commissioner and Tahir Mehmood Hayat arrived in Kishtwar, official sources told the EXCELSIOR.
The Pak delegation is being accompanied by PK Saxena, Indian Commissioner for Indus Waters along with Advisors AK Agarwal, Senior Joint Commissioner, Rajveer Singh, Deputy Commissioner, Yoki Vijay, Director CWS and Ajay Gupta, Executive Director, J&K SPDC.
The delegates arrived at Kishtwar late tonight and the arrangements for the delegates have been made by CVPPPL at Kishtwar, sources informed.
They said that the Indo-Pak delegates will inspect dam site of Pakal Dul Hydro Electric Project at Drang Doru on Chenab river tomorrow.
“This tour is an obligation imposed on both the countries by the Indus Waters Treaty 1960 between India and Pakistan. Under the treaty, both the Commissioners are mandated to inspect sites and works on both the sides of Indus basin in a block of five years,” a senior official said on the condition of anonymity.
Since signing of the treaty, a total of 118 such tours on both the sides have been undertaken, he said, adding that the last tours of the commission in Pakistan and India were held in July 2013 and September 2014, respectively.
This tour was originally scheduled in October 2018 but was postponed because of Local Bodies and Panchayat polls in Jammu and Kashmir.
Under the Indus Water Treaty, water flowing in three Indus tributaries–the Sutlej, the Beas and the Ravi has been allotted to India, while the Chenab, the Jhelum and the Indus waters has been allotted to Pakistan.
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