Vital points of tripartite meeting over Mahanadi missing in

Odisha government has alleged that some vital points raised by it at the July tripatite meeting in New Delhi over Mahanadi river water were missing in the minutes.
"Some of the views of the Government of Odisha as presented in the said meeting and some points mentioned by OSD, MoWR, RD & GR who chaired the meeting have not been incorporated properly in the minutes," secretary to the water resources department P K Jena wrote to the under secretary to the union ministry of water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation.
In his letter Jena said, "Therefore, it is requested that the points mentioned by the Odisha govenrment may kindly be included and the revised minutes of the meeting be issued without diluting the same."

The letter was sent yesterday and released to the press today.
Apart from Jena, Odisha Chief Secretary A P Padhi too attended the joint meeting chaired by secretary of MoWR at New Delhi on July 29, 2016. The senior officials of Chhattishgarh government also attended the meeting.
The meeting was held in the backdrop of Odisha's allegation that Chhattishgarh government had been unilaterally constructing several projects on upstream of Mahanadi.

"Our chief secretary had demanded that the master plan of Chhattishgarh government should be shared with Odisha government. In that master plan, Chhattisgarh had plans to use 88 per cent of Mahanadi water. However, the information on the master plan of Chhattisgarh is missing in the minute book of the tripartite meet," Jena pointed out.

"We had thought that since the chief secretary had demanded that the report be shared with us, the matter will be mentioned in the minutes. Surprisingly, there is no mention about our demand," Jena said, adding that the Odisha government had also objected to Kelo dam project on Mahanadi.
"We had also raised an objection over a meeting of technical advisory committee of the Central Water Commission (CWC) not being convened to discuss Mahanadi water issue.
"But the minute book has no mention of the objections raised by Odisha on the Mahanadi row during the tripartite meeting in Delhi," he said.

Odisha government had also apprised the CWC on the adverse impact of Arpa-Bhaisajher project undertaken by the Chhattisgarh government and seven other integrated projects. "Nothing is mentioned about the four vital issues raised by Odisha," he said.