{"id":12571,"date":"2023-06-28T05:33:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T00:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12571"},"modified":"2025-04-01T20:04:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:34:34","slug":"what-is-the-indus-waters-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-indus-waters-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Indus Waters Treaty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Indus Waters Treaty:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was <strong>signed in September 1960 between India and Pakistan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The treaty was <strong>brokered by the World Bank<\/strong>, which, too is a <strong>signatory to the treaty.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Provisions<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The treaty <strong>fixed and delimited the rights<\/strong> and obligations <strong>of both countries concerning the use of the waters of the Indus River <\/strong>system.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>gives control over the waters of the three &#8220;eastern rivers&#8217;<\/strong> &#8212; the Beas, Ravi, and Sutlej &#8212; <strong>to India,<\/strong> <strong>while control over the waters of the three &#8220;western rivers&#8217;<\/strong> &#8216; &#8212; the Indus, Chenab, and Jhelum &#8212; <strong>to Pakistan<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The Treaty <strong>allows India to use the western river waters for limited irrigation use <\/strong>and unlimited non-consumptive use for such applications as power generation, navigation, floating of property, fish culture, etc.<\/li>\n<li>It lays down <strong>detailed regulations for India in building projects over the western rivers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Treaty <strong>sets out a mechanism for cooperation and information exchange<\/strong> between the two countries regarding their use of the rivers, <strong>known as the Permanent Indus Commission,<\/strong> which <strong>has a Commissioner from each country<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Which are the main tributaries of the Indus River?<\/h3>\n<p>Its principal left-bank tributaries include the Zanskar River, Suru River, Soan River, Jhelum River, Chenab River, Ravi River, Beas River, Satluj River, and Panjnad River. Its principal right-bank tributaries include the Shyok River, Gilgit River, Hunza River, Swat River, Kunnar River, Kurram River, Gomal River, and Kabul River.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/business\/defence-indias-call-for-dialogue-exploring-the-potential-renegotiation-of-the-indus-water-treaty-with-pakistan-3144106\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India\u2019s call for dialogue: Exploring the potential renegotiation of the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indus Waters Treaty was signed in September 1960 between India and Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}