A day after Punjab and Haryana Assemblies passed a resolution against it, Himachal chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Thursday said water cess levied by the Himachal Pradesh government on hydro power generation projects does not violate any law.
”No provision of HP Water Cess on Hydro Power Generation Act 2023 violates any Act and objections of neighbouring states are not logical as water cess has already been imposed by Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir governments,” the Himachal chief minister said in the state assembly. Sukhu clarified that the Act implemented by the Himachal Pradesh government neither violates any kind of inter-state treaties nor the provisions of the Indus Water Treaty.
