Himachal Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Tuesday participated in the MoU signing ceremony for the construction of Rs. 4000 crore lakhwar Multi Purpose Project (MPP) in the Upper Yamuna Basin at New Delhi.
Chief Ministers of six States including Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, UP, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh signed the MoU in presence of Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.
The lakhwar MPP envisages constriction of 204 metre high dam across river Yamuna with live storage capacity of 330 million cubic metre (MCM) and generation of 330 MW of power.
Thakur said Himachal Pradesh would receive 3.15 percent of water as its share and correspondingly contribute Rs. 8 crore as the States share to the water component of the project. He said that total three major storage projects are proposed to be constructed on the river Yamuna and its tributaries, Tons and Giri in the territories of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, namely lakhwar MPP with 330 MCM live storage and 300 MW power generation on Tons river and Renukaji Project in Himachal Pradesh with 498 MCM live storage and 40 MW power generation on Giri river.