{"id":4787,"date":"2016-10-18T19:08:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/race4job.com\/blog\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2016-10-18T19:09:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:39:50","slug":"know-the-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/know-the-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"Know The Fact"},"content":{"rendered":"

INDUS WATER TREATY<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Indus Waters Treaty is a water-distribution treaty\u00a0between India and Pakistan, brokered by the World Bank\u00a0(then the International Bank for Reconstruction and\u00a0Development). The treaty was signed in Karachi on
\nSeptember 19, 1960 by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and President of Pakistan Ayub Khan.\u00a0According to this agreement, control over the three \u201ceastern\u201d rivers \u2014 the Beas, Ravi and Sutlej \u2014\u00a0was given to India and the three \u201cwestern\u201d rivers \u2014 the Indus, Chenab and Jhelum \u2014 to Pakistan.\u00a0More controversial, however, were the provisions on how the waters were to be shared. Since Pakistan\u2019s\u00a0rivers flow through India first, the treaty allowed India to use them for irrigation, transport and\u00a0power generation, while laying down precise do\u2019s and don\u2019ts for Indian building projects along the\u00a0way. The treaty was a result of Pakistani fear that since the source rivers of the Indus basin were in
\nIndia, it could potentially create droughts and famines in Pakistan, especially at times of war. Since\u00a0the ratification of the treaty in 1960, India and Pakistan have not engaged in any water wars. Most\u00a0disagreements and disputes have been settled via legal procedures, provided for within the framework\u00a0of the treaty. The treaty is considered to be one of the most successful water sharing endeavours in the\u00a0world today even though analysts acknowledge the need to update certain technical specifications\u00a0and expand the scope of the document to include climate change. As per the provisions in the treaty,\u00a0India can use only 20% of the total water carried by the Indus river.<\/p>\n

The Indus System of Rivers comprises three western rivers the Indus, the Jhelum and Chenab and\u00a0three eastern rivers – the Sutlej, the Beas and the Ravi. The treaty, under Article 5.1, envisages the\u00a0sharing of waters of the rivers Ravi, Beas, Sutlej, Jhelum and Chenab which join the Indus River on\u00a0its left bank (eastern side) in Pakistan. According to this treaty, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej, which constitute\u00a0the eastern rivers, are allocated for exclusive use by India before they enter Pakistan. However, a\u00a0transition period of 10 years was permitted in which India was bound to supply water to Pakistan\u00a0from these rivers until Pakistan was able to build the canal system for utilization of waters of Jhelum,\u00a0Chenab and the Indus itself, allocated to it under the treaty. Similarly, Pakistan has exclusive use of\u00a0the western rivers Jhelum, Chenab and Indus. Pakistan also received one-time financial compensation\u00a0for the loss of water from the eastern rivers. Since March 31, 1970, after the 10-year moratorium, India\u00a0has secured full rights for use of the waters of the three rivers allocated to it. The treaty resulted in\u00a0partitioning of the rivers rather than sharing of their waters. The countries agree to exchange data\u00a0and co-operate in matters related to the treaty. For this purpose, treaty creates the Permanent Indus\u00a0Commission, with a commissioner appointed by each country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

INDUS WATER TREATY The Indus Waters Treaty is a water-distribution treaty\u00a0between India and Pakistan, brokered by the World Bank\u00a0(then the International Bank for Reconstruction and\u00a0Development). The treaty was signed in Karachi on September 19, 1960 by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and President of Pakistan Ayub Khan.\u00a0According to this agreement, control over the three \u201ceastern\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4789,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}