Chandigarh, June 23 -- Contrary to the announcement made by Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann and his Haryana counterpart Nayab Singh Saini on January 27 to hold periodic meetings between officials of the two states to resolve the long-standing Sutlej Yamuna Canal (SYL) issue, not a single meeting has taken place in the past five months.

In May last, the Supreme Court directed the two states to cooperate with the Centre for an amicable solution to the decades-old dispute, asking them to hold bilateral meetings to resolve the matter.

Following the top court's directions, Union jal shakti minister CR Patil convened two meetings between Mann and Saini on July 9 and August 5.

The Punjab chief minister back then had sought scrapping of th...