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Susan Sharma
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February 28, 2014
The apex court of India has given the go ahead for the controversial inter-linking river project, seeking to transfer water from surplus to water deficit
areas in the country. In its final judgement dated February 27, 2012, a three-member bench, headed by the chief justice of India, expressed the “pious hope of speedy implementation” to bring the project to a success. The project, in the pipeline since 1980,
has been touted by the Centre as one solution to a number of problems: making water available for irrigating 35 million hectares; enabling full use of existing irrigation projects; generating power to the tune of 34,000 MW with added benefits, including flood
control.
Read full report at
http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/supreme-court-go-ahead-interlinking-rivers
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