India inaugurates major hydropower plant despite Pakistan objections

The hydropower plant, Kishanganga hydropower station, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday who visited the area to participate in the inauguration of the key project.
According to reports, the hydropower plant has a capacity to produce 330 megawatt of electricity with Prime Minister Modi saying the dam will not only help respond to the electricity needs of the region but will produce enough electricity for the other parts of the country.
“This region cannot only become self-sufficient in power but also produce for other regions of the country,” Modi said in Srinagar. The Prime Minister further added that “Keeping that in mind we have been working on various projects here in the past four years.”
In reaction to the inauguration of the hydropower plant, the foreign ministry of Pakistan said “Pakistan is seriously concerned about the inauguration [of the Kishan­ganga plant].”
The Pakistani officials are saying that the project violate a World Bank-mediated treaty on the sharing of waters from the Indus and its tributaries upon which 80 per cent of its irrigated agriculture depends.