Continuing the debate around Hathnikund water release to Delhi, city’s PWD Minister said that Haryana will have to answer why not a single drop of water was released into the canals going to UP and Haryana. She further assured that Yamuna river water is receding, the people of Delhi will get relief in the next 12 hours.
It is a big question why all the water from Hathnikund Barrage was being released only for Delhi. Not a single drop of water was released into the canals going to UP and Haryana from there. Haryana will have to answer for this. Can the flood situation in Delhi have been avoided?, Atishi told news agency ANI.
The AAP alleged that the Haryana BJP government directed all water from the Hathnikund barrage to Delhi, leaving the Uttar Pradesh side without water.
Haryana’s Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar’s advisor, retired IAS Devendra Singh, dismissed the claim as misleading. He explained that the Central Water Commission (CWC) guidelines restrict the streaming of water into Western Yamuna and Eastern Yamuna Canal, apart from Delhi, when the water flow exceeds 1 lakh cusec. Singh stated that the controversy surrounding the issue is unnecessary.
Meanwhile, the swollen Yamuna on Saturday morning followed a downward trend, albeit at a slow pace of a few centimetres per hour. And Atishi said, “the people of Delhi will get relief in the next 12 hours…”
However, it is still flowing over two metres above the danger mark of 205.33 metres. The situation could worsen if weather predictions of more rain in the capital and upper catchment areas come true.
According to the Central Water Commission’s flood-monitoring portal, the Yamuna water level declined to 207.62 metres by 7 am on Saturday from its peak of 208.66 metres at 8 pm on Thursday.
With the flow rate from the Hathnikund Barrage in Haryana’s Yamunanagar decreasing over the past two days, further decline is expected.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD), however, anticipated moderate rain in the city over the next two days and “heavy to very heavy” rainfall over Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh during the next five days, raising concern about a rise in the water level in the river.
(With agency inputs)
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Updated: 15 Jul 2023, 11:12 AM IST
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