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On 15 September 2026 the Centre and six states - Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi - signed an MoU on the Kishau Multipurpose Project in New Delhi.
The meeting was chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and attended by the Chief Ministers of all six states.
The Rs 15,624 crore project on the Tons, a Yamuna tributary, had been stuck for about eight years over cost-sharing.
As a National Project, the Centre bears 90% of the water component; Delhi, Rajasthan and Haryana will fund the roughly Rs 2,000 crore power component on Himachal's side.
The 660 MW project has a 232.6 m concrete gravity dam, 1,562 MCM storage and about 97,000 hectares of irrigation potential.
Yamuna basin states sign the water-sharing MoU providing for a separate agreement on each storage project
Upper Yamuna River Board constituted by resolution of the Ministry of Water Resources
Inter-state dispute over the Lakhwar Multipurpose Project on the Yamuna resolved
Agreement reached on the Kishau cost-sharing deadlock
Centre and six states sign the Kishau MoU in New Delhi
Lets Parliament provide by law for adjudicating inter-state river water disputes and bar the Supreme Court and other courts from hearing them
Parliament's law under Article 262 for setting up water disputes tribunals; Kishau was settled by negotiation, not a tribunal
Allocates Yamuna flows among the basin states and requires a separate agreement for each storage project such as Kishau
Regulates allocation of Yamuna flows among basin states under the 1994 MoU; an executive body set up by resolution, not a statutory one
Himachal Pradesh-Uttarakhand joint venture executing the project
Nodal ministry for National Projects and inter-state water issues
300 MW project on the Yamuna in Dehradun district, Uttarakhand, for the same six basin states; dispute resolved in 2018
Proposed on the Giri, a Yamuna tributary in Sirmaur district, Himachal Pradesh, mainly to supply drinking water to Delhi-NCR; dispute resolved in 2019
GS Paper I > Rivers and water resources; GS Paper II > Inter-state relations, federalism
General Awareness > Dams and rivers of India
General Awareness > Geography - dams and projects
Consider the following States: 1. Andhra Pradesh 2. Kerala 3. Himachal Pradesh 4. Tripura How many of the above are generally known as tea-producing States?
Answer: All four States
Which state has the maximum percentage of working female population as per Census 2011?
Answer: Himachal Pradesh
Centrally identified water resource project where the Centre funds 90% of the water component
Dam that holds back water by its own weight
Reservoir volume that can actually be released for use
Adding stored water to a river's lean-season flow