New Delhi: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is hopeful of expediting strategically important hydropower projects in Jammu and Kashmir post the scrapping of Article 370 of the Constitution that grants special status to the terror prone state.
This comes in the backdrop of the government stepping up efforts to develop the infrastructure architecture for the state which has witnessed an unprecedented cycle of violence in recent years; event as China is developing the controversial China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), part of its showpiece “One Belt One Road” (OBOR) infrastructure initiative. According to the Indus Water Treaty, whoever builds the project first will have the first rights on the river water.
