Re: [India_Vision_2020] Centre to shelve river-linking project ~ India Vision 2020

Indians,

I feel that we are already too late to start this project, we should act fast on this river linking project this will take time, need to compromise in many aspects but this will be a beter and only solution for water scarcity and hard times like floods which has already costed the government a heavy loss this time. As financial downtown is running globally an burden like floods will hit our economy. Instead executing projects like this will help our india grow safer.

We are having great minds in india, government has to support and encourage them to lead the project. will they support us?

Best Regards,

Jeevan.G

From: Raja Vallikutti <vallikutti@vallikutti.com>
To: India_Vision_2020@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 8 October, 2009 5:52:09 PM
Subject: [India_Vision_2020] Centre to shelve river-linking project

Dear Friends,

As I feel that the river linking project is too late. And also there is no proper system or awareness till today. Most of the time this is used to share the vote bank by our politicians.

Group of senior engineers from Madurai formed a organization named National Waterways Development Council and taking necessary steps to linking major rivers. In this regarding our Dr.A.P.J.A.Kalamji also gave their assurance during his presidential period.

more details pl visit http://www.national waterways. com/

Best Regards,

Va.Muthu Rajagopal

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From: prabhu govindarajan

To: India_Vision_ 2020@yahoogroups .com

Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 12:12 PM

Subject: Re: [India_Vision_ 2020] Centre to shelve river-linking project

Hi all
    I wanted to share some of my thoughts on this .I am no expert in this Please bear with me if i am too naive

1.There is no good water management system now and no calculated use (metered usage) of water.
2.There is no technology to improve the productivity of the farmers(Nil development of tools ) .A lot of villagers talk about man power shortage but no improvement in the productivity.
3.Most of the time farmers take water,electricity and the fertilizer benefits as granted but never concentrate on optimal usage.

Without a good system in place going for a huge project like river linking would be useless.

So my question here
1.What can be done to improve the productivity of the farmers (Not only yield but also the manpower and other raw material usage )
2.What would be right research to be promoted in our country ?(My humble opinion the western solutions may not completely work for us)
3.What can be done to promote the newer technologies to farmers?(Why organic farming and other techs didn't pickup like usage of chemical fertilizers)

Hope this would ignite some flame wars here.
Cheers

Prabhu,G

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On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Feroz Ahmed <ferozahm@gmail. com> wrote:

We do not know the pros and cons of river-linking in our country. However, if somebody can share with data as to how many countries around the world have implemented river-linking projects, and how successfully are they functioning. Cost and time factor would also be an issue. Thanks and regards

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Ramamurthy Seshagiri <rampadh123@yahoo. com> wrote:

Friends,

   There is a village in Salem Dt named JALAKANDAPURAM. Probably the villagers would have been saying to all " JALAM KANDAL PODUM", meaning It is" ENOUGH" if the villagers " SEE WATER" before their eyes. Now the name of the village is "JALAKANDAPURAM" , the name changed over the years.

Can any body imagine How People in the Whole Village Live with out Water? The HARDEST WORKERS are Salem District Village people. I do not want to comment on the News about Inter Linking of All Rivers of India latest announcement in the email.

   Ramamurthi. .

From: M.Velusamy <m.velusamy@yahoo. com>
To: India_Vision_ 2020@yahoogroups .com
Sent: Wed, 7 October, 2009 12:56:05 PM
Subject: 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



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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