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Report of the Indus Commission

1942

In 1934 the Government of Bombay accepted these findings and accordingly informed the Government of the Punjab that they had no objection to the construction of the dams7 but e-mphasized that this approval applied expressly to the scheme as outlined in the report of the project and did not in any way indicate approval to the withdrawal of further supplies from the other Punjab rivers tributary t [...] The section also lays down how the amount of the compensation is to be determined : it is to be determined from the diminution in the market value of the property or where that is not ascertainable it is to be reckoned at twelve times the amount of the diminution of the annual nett profits of the property. [...] As to the question of the supply of water to these canals during the rains no works likely to be undertaken could possibly diminish the supply ; but in regard to the supply of those canals which depended upon the rise of water in the river from the melting of the snow the case was different. [...] The Court however held that as the improvment of navigation was one of the declared purposes of the Act and as the river was navigable and the means provided by the Act were not unrelated to the control of navigation the grant of authority to build the dam and reservoir was a valid exercise of the constittional power of the Centre to improve navigation. [...] The first part 'of the problem is to ascertain the share of the cost of the barrages which is properly debitable to the improvement of the occupied areas (A) ; the second part of the problem is to ascertain what portion of that share is properly to be debited to the Punjab.
government politics public policy
Pages
147
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.140623
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i unknown view
Frontmatter
i-v unknown view
Part I. General
1-55 unknown view
Part II. Sind’s Kharif Case
56-74 unknown view
Part III. Sind’s Rabi Case
75-108 unknown view
Part IV. Issue Regarding Consequential Modifications
109-111 unknown view
Part V. Directions as to Costs
112-112 unknown view
Part VI
112-112 B.N. Rau, P.F.B. Hickey, E.H. Chave view
Appendices
113-140 unknown view