{"id":89413,"date":"2020-02-05T16:52:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T11:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13499"},"modified":"2020-02-05T16:52:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T11:22:49","slug":"ujh-multipurpose-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ujh-multipurpose-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Ujh Multipurpose Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Union Minister has chaired a meeting to fast-track the implementation of Ujh Multipurpose(National) Project,Jammu &amp; Kashmir.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Ujh Multipurpose(National) Project:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The project is planned to be constructed in Kathua District of Jammu &amp; Kashmir on the River Ujh, a major tributary of the Ravi river.<\/li><li>The project will enhance the utilization of waters of Eastern Rivers allotted to India as per the Indus Water Treaty.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Indus Water Treaty:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Indus Waters Treaty,1960 is a water-distribution treaty between India and Pakistan.<\/li><li>The Indus system comprises of the Indus River, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej.The basin is mainly shared by India and Pakistan with a small share for China and Afghanistan.<\/li><li>Under the Indus treaty, all the waters of three eastern rivers namely Ravi,Sutlej and Beas were allocated to India for exclusive use.<\/li><li>On the other hand,the waters of Western rivers namely Indus, Jhelum, and Chenab were allocated to Pakistan.But India can use the water in western rivers in non-consumptive needs. Here non-consumptive means we can use it for irrigation, storage and even for electricity production.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>India\u2019s Projects on Indus River:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India has constructed the Bhakra Dam on Sutlej, Pong and Pandoh Dam on Beas and Thein (Ranjitsagar) on Ravi.<\/li><li>Further,India is constructing several other projects such as Shahpurkandi Project, Ujh multipurpose project among others.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/8T0WQFDoJr3QxqSGIpf8DqR1EIttjuOl6Rc2TCwpP2zQ6Ob9X23wgD-BbbT_b77OYfcuR09CgEP4iavIduGSWnACAwlFv97hPsdgYvBcDLSOovJGTtAw9o3Q6jG2WdRAmBesGy0w\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Union Minister has chaired a meeting to fast-track the implementation of Ujh Multipurpose(National) Project,Jammu &amp; Kashmir.&nbsp; Facts: About Ujh Multipurpose(National) Project: The project is planned to be constructed in Kathua District of Jammu &amp; Kashmir on the River Ujh, a major tributary of the Ravi river. The project will enhance the utilization of waters of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ujh-multipurpose-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ujh Multipurpose Project<\/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":[1760],"tags":[5212,6861],"class_list":["post-89413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-indus-water-treaty","tag-ujh-multipurpose-project","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704754764},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89413","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=89413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}