Re: [India_Vision_2020] Centre to shelve river-linking project

 

Dear All,

            I realized this when Rahul Ghandhi stating similar idea during his visit to Tamil Nadu. Not sure it's because of one man thinking or collective government thinking or because of political difference.

            I am not an expert, but just giving my experience, I am a villager near to Salem, Tamil Nadu. Farming is the main source of income, and we don't have river source. We depend only on rain (And rain depends on us!!!), this time is considered to be rainy season, but while neighboring state is floating on water, my villagers are still looking at the sky.

           Won't the flood situation be minimized if the rivers were interlinked, won't the people at down corner be satisfied because of this. What we have conserved during this calamity by not linking it.

           For me it looks like inertia constraint to step in to the project. We are dreaming to lead with billion, won't happen without any new thinking and effectively utilizing the available resource. I happened to read a beautiful quote "We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.  --- Max Depree, American author"

 

Regards

Velu      

 

        

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From: manjit nath <manjitzing@yahoo.co.in>
To: India_Vision_2020@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, October 6, 2009 5:27:38 PM
Subject: [India_Vision_2020] Centre to shelve river-linking project

 

HI all, I want to share the news, I found in one local news paper of Assam. The river linking project was one of the most dicussed projects in Vision 2020 and also by Sir Abdul kalam. But this proposal initiated a lot of protests in river-rich states like Assam with mighty Brahmaputra flowing through its heart, where they feared that this will lead to imbalance in the eco-system in case of waters. The recent decision by Govt of India proves the fear of Assamese people to be true, though, it clearly demands some more scientific explanation.   Experts, please share your views.   Regards, Manjit Nath   The article: Link:  http://www.assamtri bune.com/ scripts/details. asp?id=oct0609/ at010   Centre to shelve river-linking project Spl CORRESPONDENT  NEW DELHI, Oct 5 — The UPA Government has decided to formally give a neat burial to the ambitious river-linking project, with Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest, Jairam Ramesh declaring that the project would be 'human, ecological and economic disaster for the country'. The pronouncement comes on a day, when the Minister announced the decision to adopt river dolphins as national aquatic animal. The suggestion to adopt the River Dolphin, also better known as Gangetic Dolphins came from Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar. "The suggestion to adopt it as national aquatic animal came from Bihar Chief Minister and we accepted it," Ramesh said, briefing newsmen about the outcome of the meeting of Ganga River Basin Authority that was chaired by the Prime Minister. The Environment and Forest Minister said that one of the criteria for measuring the revival of River Ganga would be return of river dolphins. Some 2000 of them are left in the country, he added. They were found in large numbers before a few years. But now their number has come down considerably due to various human activities like fishing, poaching, construction of Farakka barrage in Ganges, sand mining in Kulsi River and massive deforestation. The river dolphins are included in the schedule 1 of Indian Wildlife Act 1972. Ganga River currently has about 600 of dolphins, while in Brahmaputra River, its population has gone down to 240-300. Meanwhile, Environment and Forest Minister, replying to questions about the fate of the river linking project, indicated that it is going to be shelved. The Project has national and international ramifications. Bangladesh has already gone to UN, he added. This is not physically possible to link rivers, he said, adding that smaller inter-basin transfers, however, could go on. One of the erstwhile NDA Government's flagship projects, river-linking project did not find much favour with the current regime. "Interlinking of rivers was a revolutionary step initiated by the NDA government BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy had said. BJP-led NDA government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee had mooted the idea of interlinking of rivers to deal with the problem of drought and floods afflicting different parts of the country at the same time. The programme aims at equitable distribution of water throughout the country to solve issues of irrigation and drinking water as well, Rudy said."

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