{"id":9066,"date":"2019-08-11T12:15:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T06:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9066"},"modified":"2019-08-11T12:15:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T06:45:58","slug":"india-bangladesh-to-set-up-committee-for-optimum-utilisation-of-water-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-bangladesh-to-set-up-committee-for-optimum-utilisation-of-water-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"India, Bangladesh to set up committee for optimum utilisation of water resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India and Bangladesh have agreed to set up a Joint Technical committee for optimum utilisation of Ganges water as being received by Bangladesh under the Ganga Water Sharing Treaty 1996.<\/li><li>The two countries have also agreed to prepare a framework for interim water-sharing agreement for eight rivers including Feni, Gumti and Teesta.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna mega-basin is the second largest hydraulic region in the world and one of the most densely populated regions.<\/li><li>Within this basin,fifty-four rivers cross the border between upstream India and downstream Bangladesh.<\/li><li>The Ganges water sharing Treaty between India and Bangladesh is an agreement signed in 1996 to share surface waters at the Farakka Barrage near their mutual border.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India and Bangladesh have agreed to set up a Joint Technical committee for optimum utilisation of Ganges water as being received by Bangladesh under the Ganga Water Sharing Treaty 1996. The two countries have also agreed to prepare a framework for interim water-sharing agreement for eight rivers including Feni, Gumti and Teesta.&nbsp; The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna mega-basin&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-bangladesh-to-set-up-committee-for-optimum-utilisation-of-water-resources\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India, Bangladesh to set up committee for optimum utilisation of water resources<\/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":[164],"tags":[2559,5689,42],"class_list":["post-9066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-bangladesh","tag-ganges-water-treaty","tag-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704809730},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066","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=9066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}