Dam on Ravi River
India completely stopped the river Ravi from entering Pakistan. India completed the dam on the Ravi River after the much-long four and a half-decade fight.
The Ravi River is a sub-river of the Sindhu River. It flows to Pakistan from India, through Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab. In 1960, as per the World Bank Sindhu Waters Distribution Treaty, India attained complete rights to use 100% of Ravi river water.
In 1979, the then J&K CM Sheik Abdullah and Punjab CM Prakash Singh Badal made an agreement to build two dams, Ranjith Sagar and Shapur Kandi Barrage, on the Ravi River.
Both state governments had made an agreement too. As per the agreement, Rajith Sagar Dam will be built at the river top, and the Shapur Kandi barrage will be built at the bottom.
Then PM Indra Gandhi inaugurated the dam in 1982. As per their plans, the dams were going to be completed before 1998.
In 2001, Ranjith Sagar dam was completed, but the Shapoor Kandi barrage was put on hold.
Despite being announced as a national project In 2008 and started re-building in 2013, it remained incomplete until 2024.
However, after receiving the whole rights to the river four decades ago, it took a long time—64 years—to bring it into reality.
