Centre to Revive Tulbul Hydel Project: Khattar

Union power minister says India will definitely work on new hydroelectric projects

- Press Trust of India

SRINAGAR: Union power minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday said the Centre will revive the Tulbul project on the Wular Lake in Jammu and Kashmir as it no longer needs Pakistan's consent after the Indus Water Treaty was put in abeyance.

The minister also said India will "definitely" work on new hydro-electric projects in the wake of the suspension of the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan following the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.

"Before, whenever we had to undertake some work, we had to discuss that with them (Pakistan) and could not do anything without their consent. There was a project (Tulbul) under Wular Lake which was conceived in 1981 but they did not consent and it was shelved. Now, when there is no need (for consent), we will restart the project and a detailed project report (DPR) will be prepared soon," Khattar said in Srinagar.

He was addressing a press conference on the completion of 11 years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre.