Sutlej-Yamuna Link Canal: Inside India’s Most Explosive Water Dispute
For decades, Haryana has waited for water that was promised but never delivered. The Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) Canal, meant to connect Punjab’s Sutlej river with Haryana’s Yamuna, has become a monument to political inertia and inter-state distrust. The 1976 notification that allocated 3.5 million acre-feet of water to Haryana has remained only on paper — while Punjab continues to refuse the canal’s completion, citing depleting groundwater and the dying Sutlej.
From courtrooms to political rallies, from farmer protests to violent militancy — the story of the SYL Canal is layered with blood, betrayal, and broken promises. Engineers were killed, construction halted, and despite repeated Supreme Court orders, the project stands unfinished even today. Punjab’s chief ministers have suggested alternate solutions including Chenab waters, but decades of politics have drowned every possibility of cooperation.
Today, as farmers in Haryana struggle for irrigation and Punjab faces its own water crisis, the SYL dispute represents the deep fractures in India’s federal harmony. This documentary dives into the untold political drama, betrayals, Supreme Court tussles, and lives scarred by a canal that never saw completion — a story that defines North India’s water politics and inter-state mistrust.
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