Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said the Kishau Dam project would expand irrigation facilities in Uttar Pradesh, empower farmers, strengthen drinking-water availability and help maintain the uninterrupted flow of the Yamuna. Adityanath was among the chief ministers of six states who signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU)in Delhi in the presence of Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah and Union Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil. The agreement was also signed by Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, Himachal Pradesh chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, Rajasthan chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta and Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini.
