AMRITSAR: Pakistan has diverted the waters of River Ravi, flowing all along the IndoPakistan border, towards India in its upper reaches in Gurdaspur district in Punjab, causing serious damage to flood protection embankment on the Indian side and consequent havoc to cultivable land and populated areas.
In a report to the government of India, the deputy commissioner, Gurdaspur, S’S. Chinni, has said that Pakistan has constructed and is still working on a number deflecting and diversion works to push the water towards India.
“Pakistan has the advantage of general country slope from North West to South Hast, which has been fully exploited,” the deputy ‘commissioner said.
The report was handed over to the minister of state for home Subodh Kant Sahay, when he visited Batala in Punjab Friday.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 3, 1990
