Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday also urged the NCR Planning Board to support Haryana in getting necessary clearance and sanction of Renuka, Kishau and Lakhwar Vyasi upstream storage on river Yamuna for the long term solution to the drinking water problems of Delhi and NCR area.
The chief minister said that although the above storages sites were identified long ago and the MoU signed on May, 12, 1994 provided for their early construction, but no significant work had started so far on any of these dams. Haryana had taken up this matter with the union minister of water resources on several occasions. “I am of the view that this matter is vital and a meeting of the concerned states should be convened under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister. I request the Board to support Haryana in getting the necessary clearance and sanction for these projects”, he added.
The chief minister reminded in the meeting that he had asked in the earlier meetings to assess the requirement of critical inputs like water and power. He said that NCR should be treated as one integrated unit. Therefore both Delhi and NCR should be treated as one unit while preparing projects.