panaji prime minister narendra modi assured governor satya pal malik that he would soon sort out the mhadei issue after the centre issued an environmental approval to karnataka to go ahead with a project to divert the waterintervening in the prickly issue probably for the first time modi assured malik that the issue will be resolved shortlymalik who met modi on thursday in delhi had raised the environment approval given to karnatakas kalasabhandura project by the environment ministry and impressed upon the prime minister that it was the lifeline of the statemalik also told modi that any diversion of the mhadei water would have an adverse impact on goasoon after malik met modi environment minister prakash javadekar telephonically conveyed to the governor that a positive solution would be arrived in a day or twojavadekar who has so far remained noncommittal on withdrawal of the environmental approval given to karnataka has been assuring chief minister pramod sawant that he would keep goas interests in mind before taking a decisionthough an allparty delegation from goa met javadekar on november 4 with the sole demand of withdrawal of the environmental approval given by his ministry the union minister refused to give any commitment and instead said he was ignorant about ithe also said the letter giving permission to karnataka to go ahead with the kalasabhandura project was sent by some lowlevel officeron november 19 on the eve of iffi javadekar had told sawant that his ministry would set up committee to look into the concerns raised by goa over the kalasabhandura project on the mhadei but refused to either withdraw the environmental approval given to karnataka or keep it in abeyancesawant who has been constantly following up the mhadei issue with javadekar had spoken to him again on thursday and demanded that the letter should either be withdrawn or kept in abeyance sawant said if the letter is kept in abeyance it would become null and void