Context: Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor announced allocation of ₹5,282 crore for the Ratle Hydroelectric Project.

• It’s a historic decision and will make Jammu and Kashmir power surplus.

Other projects:

• The Kwar project (540 MW) and four more projects — (Kirthai-II (930 MW), Sawalkot (1,856 MW), Uri-I (Stage-II) (240 MW) and Dulhasti (Stage-II) (258 MW) — involving an investment of ₹31,000 crore had also been decided to be taken up for construction.
• These projects together with the two ongoing projects of Pakaldul (1000 MW) and Kiru (624 MW) on the Chenab river and its tributaries will result in an investment of about ₹52,821 crore and create more than 12,000 jobs in the Union Territory.

About the Ratle Hydroelectric Plant:

• It is a run-of-the-river hydroelectric power station currently under construction on the Chenab River, downstream of the village near Drabshalla in Kishtwar district of the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
• In August 2017, the World Bank allowed India to construct the dam.
• It happened after Pakistan alleged that the construction of the dam was not in line with the Indus Water Treaty.

Indus Water Treaty

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