Naik likely to meet Bansal over Mhadei dispute today

Naik likely to meet Bansal  over Mhadei  dispute today
HERALD REPORTER
PANJIM, NOV 29
Goa’s Rajya Sabha MP Shantaram Naik is likely to take up with the Union Minister for Water Resources Pawan Kumar Bansal on Tuesday the Mhadei dispute reiterating yet again the State is opposed to the project taken up by Karnataka for diversion of the valuable resource.
Speaking to Herald, Naik, who is in Delhi, said Bansal had called him today stating he wanted to discuss the issue along with some key officials. Since I got to know Chief Minister Digambar Kamat was also coming, I told him let us sit together with the officials and discuss the matter, he mentioned.
However, he MP said, he wasn’t sure whether the CM was really coming to Delhi as he had heard the trip had been cancelled. “But I will anyway pursue the issue with him. Bansal is also the Parliamentary Affairs Minister and by virtue of this I meet him everyday at 10.15 am,” he observed.
When contacted late evening, the CM’s office confirmed he was not likely to make the trip even in the next two days.  
Naik in a letter had requested the centre should frame terms of reference to take care of Goa’s interest thus requesting the tribunal to go into the aspect whether Karnataka should be permitted to construct the project after all.
In the letter the MP had stated Goa wasn’t demanding any share in the water and as such there was no dispute between the two States. Naik had requested Bansal the Centre should incorporate terms of reference to the notification issued by it appointing tribunal for the dispute.