Bhubaneswar: Strongly favouring efforts to resolve the Mahanadi water dispute between Odisha and Chhattisgarh through mediation, former chief justice of the Orissa High Court, Justice V.G. Gopala Gowda, has said that the Prime Minister needs to intervene in the issue.

Mediation — not prolonged adjudication — offered the only viable path to resolve the ongoing Mahanadi water dispute between the two neighbouring states, he said. ADVERTISEMENT

“It could deliver a faster solution and prove mutually beneficial to all parties involved. The prime minister needs to intervene in the dispute and facilitate a mediation process rather than allow the matter to drag through tribunals,” said Justice Gowda, also a former Supreme Court judge.

There has been little progress in resolving the dispute whic

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