{"id":8491,"date":"2019-07-26T16:18:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T10:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8491"},"modified":"2019-07-26T16:18:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T10:48:57","slug":"lok-sabha-passes-bill-to-set-up-single-tribunal-to-settle-inter-state-water-disputes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lok-sabha-passes-bill-to-set-up-single-tribunal-to-settle-inter-state-water-disputes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lok Sabha passes Bill to set up single tribunal to settle inter-state water disputes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lok Sabha has passed the Inter-State River Water Disputes (Amendment) Bill,2019.<\/li><li>The bill seeks to amend the Inter-State River Water Disputes Act,1956.&nbsp; The Act provides for the adjudication of disputes relating to waters of inter-state rivers and river valleys.<\/li><li>The Bill requires the central government to set up a dispute Resolution Committee(DRC) for resolving any inter-state water dispute amicably. The DRC will get a period of one year extendable by six months to submit its report to the central government.<\/li><li>The Bill proposes to set up an Inter-State River Water Disputes Tribunal for adjudication of water disputes if a dispute is not resolved through the DRC.<\/li><li>This tribunal can have multiple benches.All existing tribunals will be dissolved and the water disputes pending adjudication before such existing tribunals will be transferred to this newly formed tribunal.<\/li><li>The Tribunal will consist of a Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson, three judicial members and three expert members.<\/li><li>Under the Act, the central government maintains a data bank and information system at the national level for each river basin.The Bill provides that the central government will appoint or authorise an agency to maintain such data bank.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lok Sabha has passed the Inter-State River Water Disputes (Amendment) Bill,2019. The bill seeks to amend the Inter-State River Water Disputes Act,1956.&nbsp; The Act provides for the adjudication of disputes relating to waters of inter-state rivers and river valleys. The Bill requires the central government to set up a dispute Resolution Committee(DRC) for resolving any&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lok-sabha-passes-bill-to-set-up-single-tribunal-to-settle-inter-state-water-disputes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lok Sabha passes Bill to set up single tribunal to settle inter-state water disputes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1234],"tags":[7156],"class_list":["post-8491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-current-affairs","tag-inter-state-water-dispute-bill","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704682635},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}