DHAKA, Sept 20: The India-Bangladesh water talks ended in Dhaka on Tuesday without any development on water sharing of Teesta and six other rivers as India apparently decided to linger the issue.
“The joint technical committee will examine about sharing of water of Teesta and six other rivers,” the Indian water resources minister, Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, told journalist emerging from the Joint River Commission meeting, which ended on Tuesday.
At the two-day Joint River Commission meeting, the Indian side assured that the Ganges and Brahmaputra part of the river linking project will not be implemented soon.
“We [India] are not incorporating Ganges and Brahmaputra in the project as it will harm some Indian states, including Bihar and West Bengal, and than Bangladesh,” Dasmunsi, who was leading the Indian delegation, said. “We will not implement the Ganges and Brahmaputra components of the project.”
India will consult Bangladesh before implementing Tepaimukh project, he told journalists.
“The Brahmaputra part of the river linking project will not be implemented in the next 2000 years,” Dasmunsi told New Age on Tuesday evening at the Sonargaon Hotel.
His counterpart, Hafiz Uddin Ahmed, who was heading the Bangladesh delegation at the two-day talks, was also present when the visiting minister was replying to questions.
