Union Jal Shakti Minister C.R. Patil said New Delhi has no plans to reinstate the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, confirming that the pact remains in abeyance. “The water from the Indus system won’t go anywhere and whatever decision the government takes will benefit the nation,” the minister told reporters in Delhi, dismissing recent comments by Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto and what Patil called “false threats” from Islamabad. Government officials said the Centre will launch a public-awareness drive, led by senior union ministers, to explain the domestic advantages of suspending the 1960 World Bank-brokered treaty and to outline how India intends to use additional Indus-system water for irrigation, power and navigation in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan. Economic Times and other Indian media reported that the administration is preparing to revive the long-stalled Tulbul Navigation Project on the Jhelum River in Jammu and Kashmir. The project, allowed under the treaty for non-consumptive use, would regulate flows from Wular Lake to improve inland water transport and could reinforce India’s leverage over downstream water distribution. India placed the treaty in abeyance earlier this year after a deadly militant attack in Pahalgam. Pakistan, which relies on Indus-basin waters for agriculture, has warned that any attempt to curtail flows would be treated as an act of war, raising the stakes in already fraught bilateral relations.