<div>The Goa government is concerned about the developments in the ongoing Mahadayi river inter-state dispute, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Tuesday, after Karnataka submitted a fresh detailed project report related to the Kalasa-Bhandura project to the central government. </div>.<div>"We know that they have submitted a new DPR. We are concerned about it, but we are on track. We are in co-ordination with the central government," Sawant told reporters at the State Secretariat.</div>.<div>The Chief Minister also said, that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, would not distract his government from keeping track of the developments in the two-decade-old inter-state water dispute over the waters of the Mahadayi (Mhadei in Goa) river.</div>.<div>"We are serious about the Mahadayi issue. I have not forgotten it, even in the midst of the Covid-19 battle. I am in touch with the advocate general and the legal team. The objection which needs to be placed on record has been (filed) by the Goa government," Sawant said.</div>.<div>The ruling BJP-led coalition government has been on the backfoot, ever since the central government, following a Supreme Court directive, notified the award given by the Mahadayi Interstate Water Dispute Tribunal, making the coast clear for the Karnataka government to start construction of the disputed Kalasa-Bhandura dam project, which aims to divert water from the Mahadayi basin to the deficit basin of the Malaprabha river.</div>.<div>Goa, Karnataka are battling out a two-decade-long dispute over the sharing of the Mahadayi river in the Supreme Court, after both parties expressed reservations about the award by the Mahadayi Water Dispute Tribunal in 2018.</div>.<div>Goa has also opposed the diversion of water from the Mahadayi river basin through the Kalasa-Bhandura project claiming it would cause “ecological devastation” in Goa.</div>
<div>The Goa government is concerned about the developments in the ongoing Mahadayi river inter-state dispute, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Tuesday, after Karnataka submitted a fresh detailed project report related to the Kalasa-Bhandura project to the central government. </div>.<div>"We know that they have submitted a new DPR. We are concerned about it, but we are on track. We are in co-ordination with the central government," Sawant told reporters at the State Secretariat.</div>.<div>The Chief Minister also said, that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, would not distract his government from keeping track of the developments in the two-decade-old inter-state water dispute over the waters of the Mahadayi (Mhadei in Goa) river.</div>.<div>"We are serious about the Mahadayi issue. I have not forgotten it, even in the midst of the Covid-19 battle. I am in touch with the advocate general and the legal team. The objection which needs to be placed on record has been (filed) by the Goa government," Sawant said.</div>.<div>The ruling BJP-led coalition government has been on the backfoot, ever since the central government, following a Supreme Court directive, notified the award given by the Mahadayi Interstate Water Dispute Tribunal, making the coast clear for the Karnataka government to start construction of the disputed Kalasa-Bhandura dam project, which aims to divert water from the Mahadayi basin to the deficit basin of the Malaprabha river.</div>.<div>Goa, Karnataka are battling out a two-decade-long dispute over the sharing of the Mahadayi river in the Supreme Court, after both parties expressed reservations about the award by the Mahadayi Water Dispute Tribunal in 2018.</div>.<div>Goa has also opposed the diversion of water from the Mahadayi river basin through the Kalasa-Bhandura project claiming it would cause “ecological devastation” in Goa.</div>