Tag: Chhattisgarh

Even as Odisha and Chhattisgarh are yet to resolve the controversy surrounding the the projects on the upstream of Mahanadi river, Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh has directed concerned officials to expedite the under-construction projects on Mahanadi and other rivers

New Delhi: BJD Rajya Sabha MP Anubhav Mohanty today moved a privilege notice against the Minister of State for Water Resources, Sanjeev Balyan for providing misleading information in the Parliament on the projects undertaken in the Mahanadi upstream by Chhattisgarh. Earlier, a privilege motion was moved against Balyan in the Lok Sabha by BJD Parliamentary […]

Bhubaneswar: Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh on Wednesday trashed the claims of the Odisha government on the construction of barrages in the upper catchment areas of Mahanadi saying the ruling party is politicising the issue. Talking to reporters, Singh stated a non-issue was being made into an issue to gain political mileage keeping in mind […]

Bhubaneswar: Activists of the BJD, which has decided to stay away from the all-party meet convened by Leader of Opposition Narasingh Mishra today to discuss the projects being constructed by Chhattisgarh in the upstream of Mahanadi,stopped all goods trains to Chhattisgarh at various stations of the State and staged a hunger strike in front of […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after the Odisha chief secretary clarified that the government of Chhattisgarh had not informed Odisha about the Kelo project being undertaken by it in the upstream of river Mahanadi, a document on the Kelo project survey division, Chhatisgarh, a copy of which is in the possession of OTV, has proved that the […]

Bhubaneswar: Notwithstanding its consent for a joint control board (JCB) with Chhattisgarh government to solve issues related to sharing of Mahanadi river, the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Monday said it would hold a token protest on August 3 against the neighbouring State’s ongoing projects on the river. The regional party said it would […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government today clarified that it was not informed about the Kelo project and no letter to that effect was ever received from the Chhattisgarh government. The state government also slammed the Central Water Commission (CWC) and Chhattisgarh government for not inviting Odisha to the meeting when the approval was accorded to the […]

Bhubaneswar: The Congress on Sunday accused the BJD government in the state of allowing Chhattisgarh to go ahead with the construction of a host of projects in the upper catchments on Mahanadi, leading to the current row between the two neighbours over the sharing of water. “The BJD government led by chief minister Naveen Patnaik […]

New Delhi: After a month-long tussle between Odisha and Chhattisgarh governments over the use of Mahanadi water and construction of a barrage in the upper catchment area of the river, the two States on Friday agreed in a meeting here to set up a Joint Control Board (JCB) to settle the dispute. The meeting, attended […]

Non-BJD political parties in Odisha will attend an all-party meeting to discuss water sharing with neighbouring Chhattisgarh on August 3, said Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Narasingha Mishra

Bhubaneswar: After Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik termed the facts presented in Parliament by Minister of State for Water resources, Sanjeev Balyan as misleading, BJD today said that it will move a privilege motion against him. “The facts the MoS presented in Parliament on the projects on Mahanadi were false. A lot of facts were incorrect […]

Amidst the ongoing row between the Odisha and Chhattisgarh governments on the issue of sharing of Mahanadi water, Chhattisgarh Water Resources minister Brijmohan Agrawal today claimed that construction of projects on the upper catchments of Mahanadi will not have any adverse impact on the Hirakud dam

Bhubaneswar: A day after the announcement by the Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh that his government will go ahead with the construction of projects despite the stiff resistance put up by the Odisha government, chief minister Naveen Patnaik today said the statement of his Chhattisgarh counterpart is ‘grossly unfortunate’. “The statement of the chief minister […]

New Delhi: The Centre will convene a joint meeting between Odisha and Chhattisgarh on July 29 to discuss the sharing of Mahanadi water, which has snowballed into a major row between the two neighbouring states after Chhattisgarh embarked on a host of projects in the upper catchments of Mahanadi. The announcement about the Centre-brokered meeting […]

Bhubabneswar: A seven-member delegation of the Congress, led by Opposition leader Narsingh Mishra, visited the construction site of the contentious barrage in the upper catchment of Mahanadi river in Chhattisgarh today. Soon after the site inspection, Mishra said the team will hold talks with officials of Chhatisgarh government regarding the ongoing construction work on the […]