This is with reference to Mohan Guruswamy’s article China’s chairman is our chairman? (May 19) on interlinking of rivers in India. I plead to differ. Interlinking of Indian rivers is meant for the purpose of transferring water from surplus river basins to deficit river basins. Also, to mitigate the flood damages in the surplus river basins was considered feasible during 1970s. This has now become a pipedream due to several acts enacted from 1980 to 2006, pertaining to forest conservation, environment, wildlife, social welfare, tribal welfare, forest rights etc. This river-linking project comprises of 30 links (14 Himalayan component and 16 peninsular component), along with construction of...
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