Shimla/New Delhi, June 17 -- At a meeting chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan agreed to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the long-pending 660-MW Kishau Dam project on a tributary of Yamuna, a government statement said. The dam is proposed to be built on the Tons river--a Yamuna Tributary-- along the Uttarakhand-Himachal Pradesh border at an estimated cost of around Rs.15,000 crore. The project has been pending for more than eight years. The 660 mega watt Kishau multipurpose dam project involves the construction of a 236-metre-high concrete dam, create an irrigation potential of 97,000 hectares, and supply 517 million cubic metres (MCM) water annually to Delhi, Rajashtan and Haryana. The project will help increase the water flow in the Yamuna, ensuring a clean and pure river, a home ministry spokesperson said in the statement. "Following the MoU, the Kishau project will be presented to the Union Cabinet for approval," the statement added. As part of the Kishau Multi-Purpose Dam Project, 90% of the water component will be funded by the Centre as central assistance and the remaining 10% will be borne by the six states. "In exchange for Himachal Pradesh's cost-sharing portion of the power component, an agreement was reached to transfer water allocated for Himachal to Delhi and Rajasthan," the statement said. The meeting was attended by Union power minister Manohar Lal, jal shakti minister CR Patil, Himachal Pradesh chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami and Union home secretary Govind Mohan, besides thesecretaries of the Union ministries concerned, the chief secretaries of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and other senior officials. After the meeting, the Himachal government said the Centre has cleared bottlenecks in the proposed project, with the state's Rs.2,000-crore share in the power component to be now borne by the beneficiary states of the project's water component. "The Centre has in principle agreed that the estimated cost of Rs.2,000 crore on the power component of the state's side will be borne by the beneficiary states of water component - Delhi, Rajasthan and Haryana- of this project,"said Sukhu after the meeting. Delhi, Rajasthan and Haryana -- the beneficiary states -- would take on the cost, according to a statement issued in Shimla. Sukhu said the Congress government in state has succeeded in breaking the eight-year deadlock over bearing the financial cost, the statement said. "Previous BJP government in Himachal had agreed to contribute Rs.800 crore as the state's share towards the project, but his government has refused to do so, citing the hill state's limited financial resources," Sukhu said. He also said while the Centre is providing a 90% grant for the project's water component, similar assistance is not being extended for the power component. The CM said the state would bear the maximum impact of the project as people in the affected area would be displaced. Therefore, it would be unfair to impose an additional financial burden on Himachal Pradesh and its contribution towards national progress should be compensated suitably, he added, according to the statement. Sukhu said Himachal Pradesh would receive its share of 100 crore units of electricity annually from the project's power component after its completion, amounting to about Rs.600 crore, which would further strengthen the state's financial resources....