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1. What is the inter-linking river project?
2. History
3. States : Favour and Oppose
4. Whatre the benets?
5. What is the cost?
6. Ken-Betwa river link
7. Constitutional Provisions: Water
8. What is the problem?
9. What is CLNNUIW?
10. Indo China Water Disputes?
11. World Bank report on Indias Water Policy
12. Whats the solution?
What is the inter-linking river project?
It aims to Transfer water from surplus to water decit areas in the country.
Inter-Linking River Program will help saving the people living in drought-prone zones from hunger
and people living in ood-prone areas from the destruction caused by oods.
History
During the British raj, an Engineer Sir Arthur Cotton had sought to link the Ganga and the
Cauvery to improve connectivity for navigation purposes
but due to the increased railway connectivity among the areas, the idea was shelved.
In 1982, the National Water Development Agency (NWDA) formed as an autonomous body to carry
out the water balance and feasibility studies of the river linking program.
In Feb 2012, Supreme Court, gave its go-ahead to the interlinking of rivers and asked the
government to ensure that the project is implemented expeditiously.
States : Favour and Oppose
State Reason
no major river originates in the state; it is dependent on inter-state

In Favour =Tamil Nadu.
rivers.
Assam, Sikkim and they want exclusive right to use their water resources and that such
Kerala oppose the idea transfers should not aect any rights of these states.
Due to reluctance of certain states, the Centre has not been allowed to undertake detailed surveys.
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Whatre the benets?
Irrigating 35 million hectares;

Enabling full use of existing irrigation projects;
Generating power to the tune of 34,000 mw with added benets, including ood control.
What is the cost?
Cost of the project was estimated at 5,60,000 crore;

the true cost can known only when the detailed project reports of the 30 river link projects are
drawn up
So far only Ken-Betwa project is under survey.
Ken-Betwa river link
It is the only project for which the detailed project report has been prepared,
In 2005, MoU was signed between Union Water ministry, CMs of MP and UP.
Approximately 8,650 ha of forestland in Madhya Pradesh is likely to be submerged for the project;
and part of that forestland is a part of the Panna National Park
Constitutional Provisions: Water
Subject water is placed in the Constitution in Entry 17 of List II (State List) of Schedule VII.
However, the caveat is Entry 56 of List I (Union List), which says, Regulations and development of
inter-state rivers and river valleys to the extent to which such regulation and development under
the control of the Union is declared by Parliament by law to be expedient in the public interest.
What is the problem?
Article 246 and 7th Sch. the states have exclusive jurisdiction over waters in their territories,
including inter-state rivers
This provision prevents Union and Judiciary to settle the issue.
It has also stopped the Centre from clearly dened water rights among states, and end the long
drawn legal battles.
The latest example is the second Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal. It has turned into a warzone,
with a battery of lawyers, technical sta and irrigation department ocials from Maharashtra,
Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Everyone ghting to win the maximum allocation of the Krishna
river for their respective state.
What is CLNNUIW?
Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses : it is

a document adopted by the UN on May 21, 1997, pertaining to the use and conservation of all
waters that cross international boundaries, including surface and ground water.
Unfortunately, the convention is not yet ratied.
India, US, China, Canada and Australia are major opponents of the CLNNUIW.
Indo China Water Disputes?
China has several projects in west-central Tibet that may reduce the river water ow into
India+Bangladesh.
China is planning to divert 200 billion cubic metres (BCM) of the Brahmaputra from south to north
to feed the Yellow River.
If this is true, India will face a severe crisis, Many of the hydel projects in the Northeast India will
have to be stopped
600 out of the 1,900 BCM of river runo in India, comes from Brahmaputra. You can imagine what
would happen if the bulk of this is diverted by China.
World Bank report on Indias Water Policy
It says:
India is faced with poor water supply services, farmers and urban dwellers. All pumping out
ground water through tube-wells.
it has led to rapidly declining water tables and critically depleted aquifers, and is no longer
sustainable.
government gives highly subsidised or even free electricity. Hence juntaa using pumpsets in lax
manner.
Whats the solution?
India is getting seriously water-stressed; and we need to act fast. Water has to be treated not as a
local resource, but a global resource.
We need to see if a change in its constitutional status is required
We also need to enhance our water-storage capacity, as we suer the most from the vagaries of
the monsoon.
river-linking project, alongside a chain of water-conservation projects, would oer a solution.
Ref
1. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/status-of-water/982120/
2. www.downtoearth.org.in/content/supreme-court-go-ahead-interlinking-rivers
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Ashish goel
Dear Mrunal,
Your article are really informative and analytical but you are missing the
bigger picture here that this interlinking of river project is not feasible due to
technical reason especially due to power required to push the water from low
land to highland. currently 1 tev capacity and required 16 tev.Please
throw some light on this aspect to all the readers.
ThanKs and regards
Ashish goel
2013 aspirant
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its very good and important imformation
Shrutika
A higher resolution image is available here-
http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/archive/00941/River_941397a.pdf
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MANISH KUMAR
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Amruth
Hi mrunal,
you are doing great job.. but i think you r missing Cons of this project its
really dicult to get permissions from environmental department, it will cost
you more to pump water from lowland area to highland area, what ever
hydropower generates it wont be enough to pump water from low land area.
machinery to drill hills is another problm for govt and it will cost you lots more
wat ever we are expecting.
we dont know the river ow direction and it will change it direction very often
soo if we built a project on it, if it changes the direction all the money will go
waste.
siltation is another major problm to the rivers as you built more dams more
siltation and for desiltation you need to spend loads of money which we dont
know how much it gonna work.
you see if this projects really materialise then the problm of conversion of
fertile land to infertile will takes place in a rapid time as the sand will go
through the water and it will increase the salinity of the soil.
Pros..
water transportation
more land under cultivation
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Dipali
This is very good informetion
Dr.P.T.Hanamgond
Dear sir,
We are organizing two day UGC Sponsored national seminar on Linking of

Indian Rivers: Boon or Bane on 13-14 Sept 2013. We request you to
contribute an article for the seminar and give an invited talk on the theme.
Please let us know about your availability. The detailed information is
available on the following websites. Thanks.
http://www.indiawaterportal.org/opportunities/call-research-papers-linking-
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R.Venkatasamy
Networking of rivers facilitating ow in either direction is preferred over inter
linking of rivers in India where regionalism is a dominant factor.For more
details, please visit http://www.nationalwaterways.com
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Ken Betwa both originate from same place, Drought at same time, ood at
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What is the inter-linking river project?

States : Favour and Oppose

no major river originates in the state; it is dependent on inter-state

Whatre the benets?

Irrigating 35 million hectares;

What is the cost?

Cost of the project was estimated at 5,60,000 crore;

Ken-Betwa river link

Constitutional Provisions: Water

What is the problem?

Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses : it is

Indo China Water Disputes?

World Bank report on Indias Water Policy

Whats the solution?

Tags: Judgement (http://mrunal.org/tag/judgement)

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