Sutlej Yamuna link canal

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History

The Hindu, March 12, 2016

The SYL canal, the foundation for which was laid way back in 1982, was to link the Sutlej and Yamuna rivers in Punjab and Haryana, but the project never saw the light of the day as in the 1990s — amid the rise in terrorism — water sharing became a sensitive issue. Terrorists even gunned down officials and workers involved in the construction of the SYL canal in a bid to halt the project.

The Punjab Assembly in 2004 had passed the Punjab Termination of Agreements Act 2004, terminating the water sharing agreements of Punjab with the neighbouring States, following which a presidential reference was sought on the issue.

Punjab and Haryana are pitched for a bitter face-off as both States have hardened their stance on the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal, the focal point of a water-sharing dispute.

The Haryana government had filed a petition in the Supreme Court for an early hearing on the presidential reference in the SYL case which had been pending till November 2016.