The Mahanadi River, India’s sixth-largest, has become the subject of a bitter dispute between the States of Odisha and Chhattisgarh.
While the Mahanadi Water Disputes Tribunal headed by Supreme Court judge Justice A.M. Khanwilkar completed its whirlwind inspections of infrastructure constructed over Mahanadi in Chhattisgarh earlier this week, Odisha is getting ready to convince the tribunal as to why it desperately needs river water for sustenance.
Behind all noises over the dispute, a monumental effort is underway to churn out mountains of data, which could actually help quantify the claim over every drop of Mahanadi water— an ‘unprecedented’ attempt to resolve inter-State River water dispute in India.
