NHPC exploiting water resources of states: J&K minister

Jammu and Kashmir Irrigation Minister and Congress leader Taj Mohidin equated the National Hydro Power Corporation with the East India Company.

Jammu and Kashmir Irrigation Minister and Congress leader Taj Mohidin on Sunday equated the National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) with the East India Company,saying it was exploiting the water resources of poor states.

NHPC is behaving like the East India Company, Mohidin said at a seminar in Srinagar. The seminar Management of Water Resources in J&K and States Responsibility was organised by a civil society group,J&K Citizen Welfare Council. It (NHPC) is exploiting the water resources of the poor states, he said.

Even as the relation between NHPC and the state government is at its lowest since last year,this is for the first time that a senior J&K minister has directly attacked the corporation.

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State Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir and other members from the civil society were present at the seminar.

The J&K government wants NHPC to hand over the Salal power project. In fact,Irrigation Minister Mohidin recently laid his hands a Cabinet document of 1975 that says the J&K government is entitled to 50 per cent power generated from the Salal project.

The MoU then signed says the J&K government is entitled to 50 per cent of the power generated and will also get 50 per cent of the profits acquired by NHPC by selling its share of power, says Prof Nisar Ali,states top economist.

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