Fifty one villagers sitting in neck-deep water for 17 days in protest has paid off. The Madhya Pradesh government of Shivraj Singh Chouhan has agreed to lower the water level in the Omkarehswar dam, one of the key demands of the protesters in Ghogalgaon village of the state's Khandwa district. "We have agreed to bring down water level of dam to 189 metres and to compensate the farmers' land. We will also form a three-member ministerial panel to look into the matter," Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said today. The Chief Minister also said, "The Supreme Court had given the go ahead to increase the water level to 196.5 metres, but we will not do so now. It will, however, affect irrigation in 20,000 hectares of land and generation of 120 megawatts electricity."

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