Union Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari signed an MoU with how many states for the construction of the Lakhwar multi-purpose project in the upper Yamuna basin?

Union Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari signed an MoU with how ma

1.	Union Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari signed an MoU with how many states for the construction of the Lakhwar multi-purpose project in the upper Yamuna basin?
Answer» Union Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari signed an MoU with six states for the construction of the Lakhwar multi-purpose project in the upper Yamuna basin to deal with water crisis. Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh (Yogi Adityanath), Rajasthan (Vasundhara Raje Scindia), Uttarakhand (Trivendra Singh Rawat), Himachal Pradesh (Jai Ram Thakur), Haryana (Manohar Lal Khattar) and Delhi (Arvind Kejriwal) signed the MoU. Under the agreement, the 204-metres high project will be constructed near Uttarakhand's Lohari village with live storage capacity of 330.66 million cubic metres (MCM). The total project is worth Rs 3,966.51 crore.