Indians say the barrage would maintain the water level up to 4,000 cusecs round the year, thus making river navigable between Baramulla and Srinagar. |
The inflow of water in Gobind Sagar today was 34,000 cusecs, almost the same that was yesterday and day before. |
The canal has a total capacity of 30 cusecs of water, which would irrigate about 11,500 kanals of wasteland under Warila Pass. |
As compared to yesterday, when there was just 201 cusecs of water, water was passing through all eight spans of the Ghaggar bridge. |
From the Pong reservoir on the Beas river the release should normally be between 8,000 cusecs and 10,000 cusecs. |
True, he presided over the Cauvery River Authority and asked Karnataka to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu every day. |