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India-Bangladesh MoU on Interim Water Sharing of Kushiyara River

  • 27 Aug 2022

India and Bangladesh recently finalized the text of MoU on Interim Water Sharing of Kushiyara River at the 38th ministerial level meeting of Joint Rivers Commission.

Kushiyara River

  • The Kushiyara River is a distributary river in Bangladesh and Assam.
  • It forms on the India-Bangladesh border as a branch of the Barak River, when the Barak separates into the Kushiyara and Surma.
  • The waters of the Kushiyara thus originate in the state of Nagaland in India and pick up tributaries from Manipur, Mizoram and Assam.
  • From its origin at the mouth of the Barak, also known as the Amlshid bifurcation point, the Kushiyara flows westward forming the boundary between Assam, India, and the Sylhet District of Bangladesh.

About Joint Rivers Commission

  • The Joint Rivers Commission of India and Bangladesh was constituted in the year 1972 as a bilateral mechanism to address issues of mutual interest on common / border / transboundary rivers.