Context:

• The DPR of Ujh Project was recently submitted by Central Water Commission to the Jammu & Kashmir government.
• The DPR will help India to utilize a part of the flow that presently goes across border unutilized.

About the Ujh project

• The Ujh project is a step towards India’s utilisation of waters of the Indus and its tributaries in keeping with its rights under the treaty.
• The project, which is to come up in Kathua district, will store around 0.65 million acre feet (MAF) of water from Ujh (a tributary of Ravi) to irrigate 30,000 hectares and produce over 200 MW of power.

Indus water treaty

• Signed in 1960 by then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and then Pakistan President Ayub Khan, the treaty allocates 80% of water from the six-river Indus water system to Pakistan.
• Under the treaty, control over six north Indian rivers were divided between the two countries.
• India got control over the rivers Beas, Ravi and Sutlej whereas Pakistan got control over Indus, Chenab and Jhelum.
• This is a unique treaty involving a third party. It was brokered by the World Bank.
• A Permanent Indus Commission was set up as a bilateral commission to implement and manage the Treaty. The Commission solves disputes arising over water sharing.
• The Treaty also provides arbitration mechanism to solve disputes amicably.

Source:PIB