TDS Desk:

Planning Adviser Dr Wahiduddin Mahmud on Sunday said he is confused whether Teesta water mega plan would be a good project without any help from India.

“The water that comes through Teesta… without help from India what will happen,” he said while responding to a question during briefing reporters regarding the outcome of the regular ECNEC meeting.

He said that there were some surface level talks in the ECNEC meeting regarding the Teesta mega project proposed to be done by China.

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus recently had a visit in China where the discussion of the construction of Teesta mega project featured.

The adviser said that the water that cones through the river Teesta has to be utlised fully.

In this connection, he mentioned that there should be a reservoir to store the water. But till now no final plan has been made for this purpose.

“A surface level plan was presented from Chinese side some years back, but this cannot be said a project,” he said.

The adviser said that in principle the interim government is still at that stage till now.

“Actually, can we make a project here?  Can it be a good project with the current water flow in the river?” he questioned.

But he confirmed that China has agreed in principle to take up a project here.

“There should be a feasibility study first, and that has not been done,” Mahmud added.

He also said that there are blue print type papers for this, but there is no actual plan for this project.