Teesta Water Sharing Deal
Indian expert finishes survey
Leading water expert Kalyan Rudra, heading the one-man commission set up by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to find an acceptable solution to Teesta river water sharing with Bangladesh, has said he has done his studies and is ready to finalise the report whenever he is asked to.
“I met Mamata Banerjee three months back and she told me to continue collecting the data and figures for some more time, as there were some discrepancies in the data provided by the Central Water Committee,†Rudra said.
In September last year, Mamata had pulled out of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Dhaka, opposing at the eleventh hour the proposed Teesta water sharing agreement, upstaging the signing of deal.
Meanwhile, India's former Central Ground Water Board member SP Sinha Ray predicted the Teesta River water sharing pact with Bangladesh would take time before it was concluded.
“The Teesta agreement still has some time to go because neither Sikkim state nor West Bengal state is fully aware of their rights about the river. Unless these rights are quantified and measured, how the agreement with Bangladesh can be concluded,†Ray told a programme in Kolkata on Wednesday.
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