The Satluj Yamuna Link Canal is a 122 km canal built between the Sutlej and Yamuna rivers. It was intended to provide water from Punjab to the dry southern regions of Haryana. Construction began in 1982 but was halted in 1990 when militants attacked workers. The canal remains incomplete due to ongoing disputes between Punjab and Haryana over water rights that have involved litigation in the Supreme Court. In its 2017 ruling, the Court ordered Punjab to comply with prior judgments and complete construction to resolve the long-running controversy.
The Satluj Yamuna Link Canal is a 122 km canal built between the Sutlej and Yamuna rivers. It was intended to provide water from Punjab to the dry southern regions of Haryana. Construction began in 1982 but was halted in 1990 when militants attacked workers. The canal remains incomplete due to ongoing disputes between Punjab and Haryana over water rights that have involved litigation in the Supreme Court. In its 2017 ruling, the Court ordered Punjab to comply with prior judgments and complete construction to resolve the long-running controversy.
The Satluj Yamuna Link Canal is a 122 km canal built between the Sutlej and Yamuna rivers. It was intended to provide water from Punjab to the dry southern regions of Haryana. Construction began in 1982 but was halted in 1990 when militants attacked workers. The canal remains incomplete due to ongoing disputes between Punjab and Haryana over water rights that have involved litigation in the Supreme Court. In its 2017 ruling, the Court ordered Punjab to comply with prior judgments and complete construction to resolve the long-running controversy.
The Satluj Yamuna Link Canal is a 122 km canal built between the Sutlej and Yamuna rivers. It was intended to provide water from Punjab to the dry southern regions of Haryana. Construction began in 1982 but was halted in 1990 when militants attacked workers. The canal remains incomplete due to ongoing disputes between Punjab and Haryana over water rights that have involved litigation in the Supreme Court. In its 2017 ruling, the Court ordered Punjab to comply with prior judgments and complete construction to resolve the long-running controversy.
DISPUTE EXPLAINED of Haryana from the Punjab side.
February 23, 2017 It is about 122 km long and total length
is about 495 km which includes the sub- canals. Then prime minister Indira Gandhi laid the foundation when Darbara Singh was the chief minister of Punjab. Why is the SYL canal important? The 212km-long SYL canal was to carry Haryana’s share of water to its “dry and arid” southern part. While 121km of the canal was to run through Punjab, the remaining 91km through Haryana, which completed the work in June 1980. Around Rs 250 crore were spent on the canal system. Haryana also gave Rs 1 crore to Punjab in November 1976, the first instalment of the Rs 192 crore it would give the neighbour over the years for building the canal. However, Punjab did not start the work. Both the state filed separate petitions in the Supreme Court in 1979.
What did Punjab suspend construction?
The SS Barnala-led SAD government started the work and 90% of it was completed, costing around Rs 700 crore. But the construction was stopped when Sikh militants gunned down two senior Satluj Yamuna link is a canal that is built engineers and 35 labourers working on between river Sutlej and Yamuna to provide the canal. On November 23, 1990, the Haryana In September 1996, Haryana filed a plea CM asked the Centre to hand over the in the Supreme Court, seeking directions work to one of its agencies. for Punjab to complete the canal. A decision was taken to rope in the Border Roads Organisation, but not a brick has been laid since.
Where things stand today?
The Centre on July 22, 2004 sought the opinion of the apex court on the validity of the Punjab law through a presidential reference. The court heard the matter the next month without any outcome. Haryana filed an application in February 2011 for the implementation of the 2002 and 2004 orders. Punjab filed a suit, seeking a new tribunal to decide the water share. In March 2016, Punjab came out with another law, de-notifying the land acquired for the canal and for it to be returned it to its owners. Haryana challenged the law in the Supreme Court, which ordered status quo. Punjab also returned to Haryana Rs 192 crore it had received for the SYL canal only for the cheque to be sent back. The hearing on presidential reference resumed on February 29, 2016, and concluded May 12. The court struck down the law . The Supreme Court on Wednesday February 23, 2017, made it clear that state of Punjab would have to comply with its order on construction of Satluj Yamuna Link (SYL) canal, saying the ongoing controversy over the project must be brought to an end at the earliest.