Water Resources Minister Uma Bharati said the Centre has convened a meeting of Chief Secretaries of Odisha and Chhattisgarh to consider various water issues and projects in Mahanadi Basin on Friday. Replying to a brief discussion in response to a Calling Attention notice in the Rajya Sabha today, the Minister said if necessary, Ministerial level meeting can also be held to resolve the dispute between the two states. Earlier, Minister of State for Water Resources Dr Sanjiv Kumar Balyan said a Joint Control Board, which was to be set up as per MoU of 1983 between the erstwhile Madhya Pradesh and Odisha could not be constituted till today. <br/><br/>He said the Board was supposed to review the progress, execution and preparation of joint inter-state irrigation and power projects and discuss and resolve any issue. Dissatisfied over the two ministers' reply, BJD members staged a walkout. Raising the issue, Dilip Kumar Tirkey of the BJD alleged that Chhattisgarh had undertaken construction of barrages on Mahanadi without consulting Odisha. He said the construction of barrages will adversely impact the agriculture, drinking water, power generation in Odisha.