Congress, BJP in Rajasthan demand river water share

The ruling Congress and the Opposition BJP in Rajasthan have joined hands to get surplus Yamuna river waters from Tajewala head in Haryana as the State’s share under the inter-State river water agreement of 1994. Rajasthan has not been getting 1,917 cusecs of water from the Tajewala barrage stipulated by the Central Water Commission (CWC) in 2003. The State government has sent a proposal to the CWC with a detailed project report for bringing water from Tajewala head through pipelines, along with a memorandum of understanding forwarded to the Haryana government for the project’s implementation.