New Delhi, May 8 -- Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for cancelling the discriminatory clause of the Indus Water Treaty and said that this decision will "directly benefit farmers" in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Ladakh.

"We thank the Prime Minister for cancelling the discriminatory clause of the Indus Water Treaty, under which 80 per cent of water went to Pakistan and only 20 per cent remained with India. This decision will directly benefit farmers in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Ladakh... they will receive more water for irrigation, cultivable land will increase and hydropower projects will provi...