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Plans for more Indus basin projects readied for Cabinet
The Morning Standard
|May 15, 2025
AFTER putting the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in abeyance, the government is considering three new hydropower projects on the Indus River Basin besides fast-tracking two other projects.
The treaty signed in 1960 restricts India's usage of the western rivers—Indus, Jhelum, and Chenab—to benefit Pakistan. Ever since, Pakistan has been stalling Indian proposals to construct hydropower plants on the three rivers under various pretexts.
India put the treaty in abeyance following a horrific terrorist attack on April 22 in Pahalgam, killing 26 people.
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