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Stay on Mahanadi projects

-The Telegraph

New Delhi: An environmental court in Calcutta today directed the Chhattisgarh government to halt work on 31 projects along the Mahanadi river that environmental groups fear will reduce the downstream water flow in Odisha.

The Calcutta bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) issued a stay order on the projects, a mix of dams, barrages, irrigation channels among them, at various locations along the Mahanadi before the river enters Odisha's Sambalpur district.

The Mahanadi river water has emerged into a major controversy between the two states with Odisha accusing Chhattisgarh of going ahead with projects that could weaken the water flow and affect people's livelihoods downstream in Odisha.

"This is an interim ruling but a very important ruling," Sudarshan Das, a social activist based in Bhubaneswar who had filed a petition against the projects in the NGT told The Telegraph . "Multiple projects along this river in Chhattisgarh have already reduced the water flow and the new projects will make things only worse."

The next hearing on the petition has been scheduled for August 25.

While the projects in Chhattisgarh have environmental clearances, critics say their impacts on Odisha have been overlooked. Das said his petition filed last year was motivated by concerns about the likely consequences of reduced water flow on over two crore people who live along the river in Odisha.

"Adequate water flow is required to safeguard the livelihood of people dependent on agriculture and fisheries in Odisha," Das said.

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