BS Odisha Round Table: Naveen firm on tribunal to resolve Mahanadi issue

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Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik remains firm on his demand for constitution of a tribunal to resolve the Mahanadi water dispute with neighbouring Chhattisgarh, which has snowballed into a major political issue.

“We have asked them (the Centre) quite clearly to form a tribunal where both the states, Chhattisgarh and Odisha, can come up with their points for a judicial outcome, and until then to stop all work on the barrages built on the Mahanadi by Chhattisgarh. But the central government is still not agreeable to this. We will continue to pursue our point of view,” said Patnaik at the