Lalandar Dam

  • Recently, India and Afghanistan have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the construction of the Lalandar (Shahtoot) Dam in Afghanistan.
  • Shahtoot Dam is a proposed dam in the Kabul river basin, one of the five river basins in Afghanistan.
  • This project will provide drinking, and irrigation water to Kabul province.
  • Shahtoot dam is the second major dam being built by India in Afghanistan, after the Friendship Dam or Salma dam in 2019.
  • Earlier Pakistan has opposed the construction of dam, which is located on a tributary of the Kabul river that flows into its Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, claiming that the project will reduce the ....
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