Report of the Court of Arbitration on Certain Matters under Dispute between the Government of Sind and the Khairpur State 1938-39

The liability of Khairpur State to pay a share of the cost of the Sukkur Barrage including the determination of the conditions on which the State is to participate in the project ". 23 Summary of Arbitrator's Recommendations on Issue No. [...] With the approval of the Agent to the Governor-General Punjab States and the two Representatives I approached the Punjab Government for the loan of the services of Mr. [...] a brief history of the Lloyd Barrage Project the history of the negbtiations between the two parties leading up to the appointment of the Court recapitulations The Report. [...] The Government of India in forwarding this note suggested to the Goverment of Bombay that the increasing cold weather withdrawals in the Punjab would very likely diminish the supplies entering the inundation canals in Sind and they pointed out the unsatisfactory condition of Sind as regards the low percentage of irrigation to cultivable area and the high proportion of lift to flow. [...] Even were the present state of affairs incapable of improvement it would yet be necessary to arrange that the Province may not suffer in the future by the diminution of the water supply owing to the extesion of irrigation in the Punjab and this is one of the chief objects which the weir is designed to effect.