India, May 11 -- With Maharashtra and neighbouring Madhya Pradesh signing a pact for sharing water under the ambitious Tapi Mega Recharge Project in Madhya Pradesh, the state will be able to irrigate 234,707 hectares of land in Vidarbha and North Maharashtra.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the project was signed by Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis with his Madhya Pradesh counterpart, Mohan Yadav, at a meeting of the inter-state control board of the two states on irrigation and hydro power projects, in Bhopal on Saturday.

The cost of the joint project, being built on Tapi River at Khariya in Madhya Pradesh, is Rs.19,244 crore, at 2022-23 estimates. According to the Chief Minister's Office (CMO), the project will irrig...