Bhubaneswar, Dec. 3: The Odisha government yesterday moved the Supreme Court seeking to stop construction on barrages and dams on the Mahanadi river by the Chhattisgarh government. On November 22, the state also filed a statutory complaint petition under Section 3 of the Inter State River Water Dispute Act, 1956, before the Government of India for constitution of an Inter-state Water Dispute Tribunal to resolve its dispute with Chhattisgarh. It had accused the neighbouring state of its unilaterally planned utilisation of 27.48 million acre feet of water as against a total availability of minimum flow in Mahanadi river of 20.61 million acre feet. In its petition, Odisha has said: "As a part of our equitable share, a minimum flow of 12.28 million acre feet of Mahanadi water at Hirakud Dam as per the detailed project report (DPR) of Hirakud project of 1947 and a further utilisation of 3.67 million acre feet in the surplus flows." The case filed in the Supreme Court on the Polavaram dispute issue has not yielded any positive result so far."

Source: The Telegraph December 03, 2016 21:07 UTC