Indian river linking

1. INTER LINKING OF
RIVER IN INDIA
Submitted By -
Vaishali Parashar
Vikram Singh
Vivek Kumar
(B.Com IV Sem)1

2. Topics covered
• Introduction
• Reasons and motivation of Inter Linking
• Benefits of Inter Linking
• National river linking project in India
• Issues caused by interlinking
• Alternatives to interlinking
• History of Inter Linking
• Conclusion
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3. • River Linking is a project of linking two or more
rivers by creating a network of manually created
canals, and providing water to the land areas that
does not have river water access and reducing the
flow of water to sea using this means.
• It is based on the assumptions that surplus water
in some rivers can be diverted to deficit rivers by
creating a network of canals to interconnect the
rivers.
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4. Reasons & Motivation
Of
Inter Linking
• Regional Rainfall Variation
• Futuristic Demand Of Irrigation
• Increasing Population and Food Demand
• To Control Floods & Droughts
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6. I. Irrigation - By linking of rivers vast amount of land areas which
does not have otherwise irrigated and unusable for agriculture become
fertile..
II. Flood prevention – By creating network of rivers flood &
drought problem can be greatly avoided by channeling excess water
to areas that are not experiencing a flood or are dry. This works
similar to canal system in Netherlands to channel excess water from
sea..
III. Generation of electricity - With new canals built, feasibility of
new DAMS to generate hydroelectric power becomes a possibility.
IV. Navigation - Newly created network of canals opens up new
routes and ways and routes of water navigation, which is generally
more efficient and cheaper compared to road transport..
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7. V. Higher GDP Growth - By interlinking rivers, there will be a
boost and increased employment in agricultural sector, power,
transportation; construction etc. Interlinking can increase the GDP by
5to 6 %.
VI. Business Opportunities – It is expected to generate large-scale
business opportunities in manufacture of mechanical equipments,
earthmovers, stone crushers, power shovels, other transportation
vehicles, etc.
VII.Drinking Water - Majority of our population will get drinking
water; Special emphasis is that all the cities connected by Golden
quadrilateral project will get drinking water.
VIII.Revenue- The government is expecting revenues from benefits of
navigating through waters, increased tourism, joint ventures, private
initiatives and cess on waters.
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8. National River Linking Project
in
India
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9. NRLP
 The National River Linking Project (NRLP) is
designed to ease water shortages in western and
southern India while mitigating the impacts of
recurrent floods in the eastern parts of the Ganga
basin.
 The NRLP, if and when implemented, will be one of
the biggest inter basin water transfer projects in the
world.
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10. Present Status Of Interlinking Of Rivers Project
-Press Information Bureau release
 The Government has said that the National Water Development Agency
(NWDA) under the Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) has
identified 30 inter-state River links (16 under Peninsular Component &
14 under Himalayan Component) for preparation of Feasibility Reports
(FRs).
 Out of these, FRs of 14 links under Peninsular Component and 2 links
(Indian Portion) under Himalayan Component have been completed.
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12. 1. Ecological issues – Major concern being the argument that
rivers change their course in 70–100 years and once they are
linked, future change of course can create huge practical problems
for the project.
2. Aqua life – A number of leading environmentalists are of the
opinion that the project could be an ecological disaster. There
would be a decrease in downstream flows resulting in reduction of
fresh water inflows into the seas seriously jeopardizing aquatic
life.
3. Deforestation –Creation of canals would need large areas of
land resulting large scale deforestation in certain area.
4. Areas getting submerged - Possibility of new dams
comes with the threat that habitable or reserved land getting
submerged under water.
5. Displacement of people –As large strips of land might
have to be converted to canals, a considerable population living in
this areas must need to be rehabilitated to new areas.
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13. Alternatives
to
Indian River Linking
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14. • Rainwater harvesting and conservation of
water resources
• Recharging ground water reservoir
• Community participation
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15. HISTORY OF INTERLINKING
• 1972- Ganga cauvery link proposed by Dr. K.L.Rao .
• 1974- “Garland canal” proposal by captain Dastur .
• 1980- Ministry of water resources frames the National
Perspective Plan(NPP) .
• 1982- The National Water Development Agency (NWDA) set up
to carry out pre – feasibility studies .
• 1999- A National Commission for Integrated Water Resources
Development plan (NCIWRDP) set up to review NWDA
reports .
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16. • Aug 15, 2002- President Abdul Kalam mentions the need for
river linking in his independence day speech .
• Oct 2002- Supreme court recommends that the government
formulate a plan to link the major Indian rivers by
the year 2012.
• Dec 2002- Govt. appointed a task force on interlinking of 37
rivers led by Mr. Suresh Prabhu. The deadline was
revised to 2016.
Contd…
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17. • Considering the pragmatic view of all the issues raised
it can be concluded that implementation of this
ambitious scheme is not possible in foreseeable future.
• Hence it can be a better option to concentrate on the
local resources and think upon the alternatives
available.
CONCLUSION
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