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Dilip Patel
Ahmedabad, 28 April 2025
This agreement was signed on 19 September 1960 in Karachi between India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistan’s President Field Marshal Ayub Khan. It was called the ‘Indus Water Treaty’. But Pakistan is violating this treaty and spreading water terrorism in Gujarat for the last 40 years, forcing people to migrate to Kutch, yet Modi is silent.
The Indus Treaty mediated by the World Bank says that no country can do anything that causes harm, but Pakistan has been harming Gujarat for 40 years.
Earlier, the then Chief Minister Modi, while making an election announcement, had talked about giving water of the Indus River to Kutch as well. Demanded Pakistan to give water to Gujarat.
Gujarat’s important issue of sharing the water of the Indus Basin with Pakistan is pending before the Modi government. He demanded from the central government that the water of the Indus river be given to Gujarat. Modi played politics by giving the water of the Indus river to Kutch. After getting votes, he has now turned a blind eye to where the Indus river is and where Kutch is.
Even today Kutch can get water from the Indus river.
The international canal could not have been built without an agreement between India and Pakistan. Not only Pakistan has done injustice to Kutch, the Gujarat government has also done injustice. Kutch has received irrigation water from Narmada after a delay of 25 years. That too is incomplete.
Despite the recognition of Kutch’s riparian rights on the water of the Indus river, it has been deprived of the benefits. Under the Indus Water Treaty, Harike Barrage was built at the confluence of Sutlej-Beas in India, from which the Indira Canal originated, which was planned to be brought to the Kandla Grand Port of Kutch for irrigation and shipping.
Kanwar Sen, head of the Rajasthan Canal Project, acknowledged the technical possibility. It reached Jaisalmer and Barmer in Rajasthan but not Gujarat.
In 1964, the Rajasthan government refused to release water, arguing that the water from the barrage was insufficient to meet its own needs. But Gujarat released 0.4 million acre feet of water from the Narmada in 2002, opening up another potential for Kutch to be buried in the desert.
Modi is now the Prime Minister. He has forgotten everything. Soon after becoming Chief Minister, Narendra Modi claimed in 2002 that Gujarat was entitled to the waters of the Indus River under the ‘Indus Accord’ signed with the Government of India, which was then allied with Pakistan. He requested Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in April 2002 to implement the ‘Indus Accord’. Besides, he requested the Central government to extend Rajasthan’s Indira Canal to Kutch. Apart from Narmada, he also advocated bringing waters of the Indus River to Gujarat.
Prime Minister Vajpayee in 2003
The Vajpayee government had made it clear in Parliament on 8 April 2003 that it is not possible to give Indus river water to Kutch and Kutch is not included in this treaty. Despite saying this, Modi continued this demand in the following years and tried to show the people of Gujarat that the Congress Sultanate of Delhi is doing injustice.
Now Prime Minister Modi has gone silent about Kutch. He is not willing to do anything to provide Indus water to Kutch. Shortly before India got independence, the Maharaja of Kutch had signed an agreement with the Sindh province to bring Indus river water to Kutch. Despite the fact that it can be implemented, Narendra Modi at the Center is now not willing to do anything to get justice to Gujarat.
Modi 26 September 2016
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a review meeting on Indus River Water Treaty on 26 September 2016. In this meeting, Modi told the officials that blood and water cannot flow together. We are serious about renegotiating the agreement. Officials said that India can take its share of water without breaking the agreement. We are giving our share of 3.6 million acre feet of water to Pakistan and this can be stopped. This will irrigate 6 lakh hectares of land. 18,000 megawatt electricity can be generated from this water. Currently 3,000 megawatt electricity is being generated. This will end the problem of electricity and irrigation in Jammu and Kashmir.
Indus in Kutch
One of the conditions of World Bank assistance is that no country can use the water it receives in a way that causes harm to another country.
Pakistan uses water on the Kutch border for leaching process. Leaching process means releasing saline water to sweeten the salty soil. Concentrated saline water is released in March-April. At that time the wind direction is towards India, so due to the pressure and flow of air the water comes towards India.
Pakistan cannot send concentrated saline water anywhere else. The water flows towards the Rann of Kutch through a natural slope. From there the water reaches Sir Creek. From there it keeps flowing into the Jakhona Sea.
Four villages in Baneni of Kutch have been displaced due to Pakistani water terrorism. There is no population in Lyawara village. Where saline water has come.
The water of the Indus River is being used by Pakistan to harm India.
The World Bank played the role of mediator in the negotiations between the two countries on this agreement and has also helped in controlling the water shortage in Pakistan.
Pakistan also signed the agreement as a third party. The main objective of this agreement was to divide the water of the Indus Valley rivers between the two countries in an equitable manner.
If Karkar Farah succeeds in the agreement, Gujarat will benefit.
Stop cropping
Pakistan has built 42 dams on the Gujarat-Kutch border.
The then Chief Minister of Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah, who came to inaugurate the newly built Kalidas Dam, had said that now rainwater will be used for irrigation.
I will not go to the desert. Then the people of Pakistan protested against him regarding the environment.
Pakistan has increased its military activities on the coastal and desert borders of Kutch for the last five years. In which mines, dams and structures are being built on the islands on the border. Like Kutch, Singhu is also a desert area. Where there is a shortage of water. Singh’s government has built 42 dams. Kalidas Dam has been built in Nagarparkar. Water coming from the Karonjar mountain range will be stored in this dam. The condition of Hindus has become pathetic. Mining lease has been approved, China is partnering.
Closed
Kotdi Barrage Dam has been built in Singhu, Pakistan. A survey was done to bring water from that dam to Kutch through a canal. A canal was to be built to Banni to flow water from this dam. The canal was to be 120 kilometers long.
Katan Patji village on the border of Pakistan and India is located in Pakistan. Who is Hajipir of Kutch? It is closed 35 miles away. If Pakistan provides water from this dam, then water can be brought to Banni. Due to heavy rains in Pakistan in 2022, rainwater flowed into the desert of Kutch.
If this agreement is reached that India will release saline water into Kori Creek through a channel and Pakistan will provide water from Kotdi Dam.
Narendra Modi knows all these facts because when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Mahesh Thakkar, a former MLA of Kutch and a social leader who continuously fought for Indus water, told him about them. This has been written in a book called Indus Waters and Kutch. This book was written in 1986. All the details of the Indus Treaty have been provided in that book with evidence. Narendra Modi had ordered this book from the author.
When Vajpayee was the Prime Minister, he was asked to raise this issue with Pakistan. Narendra Modi had declared that we should get our right for Gujarat from Pakistan. The committee was formed on the basis of Gujarat’s demand. Its report is pending with the Delhi government today. But no concrete result came out of it.
When Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister, Thakkar of Kutch again wrote a letter to him and informed him that now he should get justice for Kutch.
Rupani in 2018
On June 6, 2018, in Gandhinagar, former Kutch MLA Mahesh Thakkar met Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and presented evidence that it is possible to transport the abundant water of the eastern rivers from Barmer to Kutch through a large diameter pipeline as an alternative to navigation or irrigation under the Indus Water Treaty of 1960.
He had said that for the implementation of the Indus Treaty, now food is in the kitchen and the one who serves is the mother. His advisor was Navalawala and he was given detailed information. But then nothing could be done.
I believe there is no alliance with Pakistan.
A barrage has been built on the Eastern River in Punjab. From which water reaches Barmer and Jaisalmer through the Indira Canal.
If Narmada water is taken to Barmer, then water can be brought to Kutch from there through a pipeline. If this pipeline is extended to Kutch, then three districts of Gujarat can get its benefit. Notes have been sent to Narendra Modi three times in this regard.
Modi’s Law Minister Meghwal came to Kutch to bring an oil refinery in Bedmer, and his plan was to conduct a survey and dig the seabed so that small ships could go from Kori Creek to Bedmer.
When Chaminbhai Patel was in power and Gujarat sought a loan from the World Bank, a World Bank investigation team came to Kutch. Mahesh Thakkar held talks at Umaid Bhavan.
Pakistan has backed out from the agreements mediated by the World Bank. Because the water being released into the salty desert of Kutch is causing a lot of damage. In 1992, a World Bank team presented a report in Kutch that Pakistan should return to India. Give us justice. Then the World Bank representatives asked him to come to Geneva.
The Indus River used to flow in Kutch.
The 3200 km long Indus River, originating from Mansarovar in Tibet, is the longest river in Pakistan. Entering the northern part of Jammu and Kashmir of Pakistan, it flows southwards and merges with the Arabian Sea near the Karachi port near the border of Kutch. Its watershed is spread over 4.5 lakh square miles. Annually 2017 cubic km. As much water flows. Indus river in Sindh region includes Chenab, Ravi, Sutlej, Jhelum, Beas and extinct Saraswati. One of the 20 channels was the Indus river in Kutch, but due to the earthquake the ground rose and the river stopped flowing.
Narmada water
The water of the Narmada dam has been transported to Kutch, 400 km from Kevadia. But the Narmada Corporation itself spreads terrorism against the Agariya people of Kutch like Pakistan. Here for the last 10 years water is being released into the desert from the Narmada canal. Thus, Rupen river of Kutch diverts the water of Narmada to Patdi, Bajna,
From the mouth of Khod, Ajitgarh and Mangarh, it leaves in the desert of Jhinjuwada, Khargodha and Boda. Which turns into a bat. Salt worth crores of rupees has been spoiled. This has had a serious impact on the ecology, flora, fauna and wildlife of the desert.
Jinnah and Modi are from Gujarat.
Just as Modi is from Gujarat, the Hindu ancestors of Mohammad Jinnah of Pakistan came and settled in India. After which they came and settled in Paneli, Rajkot, Gujarat. Chinese traveler Fa-Hien lived in India from 399 to 414 AD. He has written that – in the area between the Indus River and the Suleman Mountains, i.e. in Tak Desh, a tribe called Lohana lived. (Google translation from Gujarati)
