Vital points of tripartite meeting over Mahanadi missing in

minutes: Odisha Bhubaneswar, Aug 20 (PTI) Odisha government has allegedthat some vital points raised by it at the July tripatitemeeting in New Delhi over Mahanadi river water were missing inthe minutes. "Some of the views of the Government of Odisha aspresented in the said meeting and some points mentioned byOSD, MoWR, RD & GR who chaired the meeting have not beenincorporated properly in the minutes," secretary to the waterresources department P K Jena wrote to the under secretary tothe union ministry of water resources, river development andGanga rejuvenation. In his letter Jena said, "Therefore, it is requested thatthe points mentioned by the Odisha govenrment may kindly beincluded and the revised minutes of the meeting be issuedwithout diluting the same." The letter was sent yesterday and released to the presstoday. Apart from Jena, Odisha Chief Secretary A P Padhi tooattended the joint meeting chaired by secretary of MoWR at NewDelhi on July 29, 2016. The senior officials of Chhattishgarhgovernment also attended the meeting. The meeting was held in the backdrop of Odisha’sallegation that Chhattishgarh government had been unilaterallyconstructing several projects on upstream of Mahanadi. "Our chief secretary had demanded that the master plan ofChhattishgarh government should be shared with Odishagovernment. In that master plan, Chhattisgarh had plans to use88 per cent of Mahanadi water. However, the information on themaster plan of Chhattisgarh is missing in the minute book ofthe tripartite meet," Jena pointed out. "We had thought that since the chief secretary haddemanded that the report be shared with us, the matter will bementioned in the minutes. Surprisingly, there is no mentionabout our demand," Jena said, adding that the Odishagovernment had also objected to Kelo dam project on Mahanadi. "We had also raised an objection over a meeting oftechnical advisory committee of the Central Water Commission(CWC) not being convened to discuss Mahanadi water issue. "But the minute book has no mention of the objectionsraised by Odisha on the Mahanadi row during the tripartitemeeting in Delhi," he said. Odisha government had also apprised the CWC on theadverse impact of Arpa-Bhaisajher project undertaken by theChhattisgarh government and seven other integrated projects."Nothing is mentioned about the four vital issues raised byOdisha," he said. PTI AAM KKIKA