| To: | Hon'ble Speaker, Haryana Assembly, Vice President of India (Hon'ble Shri Hamid Ansari), HE The Governor of Haryana, Prime Minister of India (Hon;ble Sardar Manmohan Sngh), Director(Public/Staff Griev.), Ministry of Water Resources (Shri. Khatchin Langel), President of India, New Delhi (HE Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil), Chief Justice of India (Hon'be the Chief Justice of India), Hon'ble Speaker Lok Sabha, Chairperson, UPA and President, AICC (Smt. Sonia Gandhi), Punjab and Haryana High Court (Hon'ble Chief Justice), Chief Minister, Haryana (Ch. Bhupinder Singh Hooda), and ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR INDIA (SHRI GOOLAM E. VAHANVATI) |
| Letter: | Greetings, ,
The people of South Haryana should write to the President of India and the Chief Justice of India for prompt disposal of the presidential reference on channelizing the surplus Ravi-Beas waters to southern Haryana through the Satluz Yamuna Link - SYL canal, this matter had been pending for nearly seven years. The President had referred the contentious issue to the Supreme Court after the Punjab Assembly passed the Punjab Termination of (Water) Agreements Act in 2004, annulling the tripartite agreement signed by the Chief Ministers of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan in the presence of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1981. Gandhian Ideologist, philosopher and social reformer Naresh Kadyan moved public interest litigation - PIL in the Punjab and Haryana High Court against Punjab Assembly decision, which is cine die due to matter pendancy in the Supreme Court of India.
It would be pertinent to mention here that the ground water level is decreasing day by day and there are no water in some places, these effected people have right to live or to commit suicide with out water. Now we have decided to sit at Janter Manter for indefinite hunger strike on 15th August, 2011, if concerned authorities failed to resolve the issue.
Complaint lodged - MINWR/E/2011/00049 with the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances on 11 Apr 2011.
SC delay in deciding Presidential reference, State demands union minister’s intervention
Media reports..............
Peeved at the inordinate delay by the Supreme Court in deciding the Presidential reference on the Termination of Agreements Act passed by the Punjab Assembly, the Haryana Government has sought intervention of Union Minister for Water Resources Salman Khurshid in the issue.
The Punjab Assembly had passed the controversial Act in 2004 when the Congress ruled the state so that the construction of the SYL canal could not be completed as ordered by the Supreme Court. Following a representation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi by party MPs from Haryana, among others, the matter was referred by the President to the Supreme Court to decide on the constitutional validity of the Punjab Act. The apex court is yet to pronounce its verdict.
Haryana is worried over the delay because the construction of the SYL canal, which is the lifeline of the state, has also been held up.
Haryana Irrigation Minister Ajay Singh Yadav urged Khurshid to take up the issue with the Attorney-General of India, who, in turn, should request the apex court for an early decision. Yadav pointed out to Khurshid that this was perhaps the only Presidential reference, which had not been decided by the Supreme Court for more than seven years.
He also attached a list of Presidential references made to the Supreme Court since 1951, which, he said, had been decided by the apex court in year in which these references were made.
Yadav regretted that the matter was not being listed despite being mentioned several times by the Haryana Government in all these years. He said an application was also filed in this regard in August, 2010. “It gives us a feeling that the Government of India has not followed up the matter with the Supreme Court,” he added.
He said the issue was very important for Haryana, especially for the southern part of the state, which was deprived of water due to the non-completion of the SYL canal by Punjab. Yadav also expressed the hope that the early decision on the Presidential reference by the Supreme Court would also help resolve the Hansi-Butana canal issue.
It may be recalled that the Hansi-Butana canal has not been able to work because of a stay order by the apex court.
Shri Abhishek Kadyan, Media Adviser to the International Organisation for Animal Protection - OIPA in India and Ms. Sukanya Kadyan, Director of PFA Haryana are hereby authorized to deliver our petition in person to you.
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