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dated November 7, 1958: Canal water dispute

India would reject the Pakistan plan for a settlement of the canal water dispute and put forward certain constructive suggestions during the forthcoming Washington talks at the end of this month, it was learnt in New Delhi on November 6. The Pakistan Plan was submitted during the talks in London in July last. The Indian delegation to the talks at Washington under the auspices of the World Bank will leave here in the last week of this month. India would reject the Pakistan plan mainly on two grounds, it was learnt. Firstly, the cost of construction of the link canals in the Plan was exorbitant and secondly India could not supply water to Pakistan for another fifteen years from the three eastern rivers of the Indus Basin as there was great demand for water in the Punjab and Rajasthan.

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