The Uttar Pradesh government has agreed in principle to pay back Rs 1,000 crore which it owes to Uttarakhand as pension liabilities. The amount will be paid in installments. This decision was reached at a meeting between Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna and his UP counterpart Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow on Thursday.Akhilesh, it is learnt, also agreed to return a sizeable stretch of land in Uttarakhand, which is still in the possession of the UP government.Issues pertaining to ownership of dams and revenue sharing in the power sector are yet to be settled. Many dams in Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand are still controlled by UP. The VIP Ghat and Alaknanda hotel in Haridwar are also under the UP government. The UP irrigation department has not transferred land in Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar.