"Various agencies of the government, including the NTRO and the National Remote Sensing Centre, are keeping continuous watch and alertness over the tributaries on the Chinese side.
"So far, we do not find any such activity which could lead us to believe that they could divert water from the mighty river of Brahmaputra," Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said in the Rajya Sabha during the Question Hour.
He said China is a vast country and it may have other plans and every time India has been able to get an assurance from the neighbouring country that it would act responsibly.
"Not only we are going by their statements, our different agencies...Are continuously monitoring the activities...I can say with all sense of responsibility that there is nothing to suggest that, presently, there is any quantity of water being diverted from Brahmaputra at all," he said.
Bansal, however, said there are many projects which China is entitled to take up and most of those projects are on the tributaries of Brahmaputra.
"....There is only one project of which there is a reference in the media repeatedly which is at Zangmo, about 550 kms from the border. It is a project of 550 MW of electricity. Presently, the entire information is that it is a run of the river and there is no storage," he said, adding there was no question of diversion of water from the South to North in China from that point. (MORE)