The Congress-led UPA government told the Supreme Court that it would keep the previous NDA government's ambitious of Rs 5,00,000-crore river inter-linking project flowing. Solicitor-general G E Vahanvati said that the Centre had in principle decided not to go back on the project. However, the matter would be placed before the Union Cabinet for a comprehensive review in September. A Bench of Justices Y K Sabharwal, D M Dharmadhikari and P B Naolekar allowed six weeks' time to the Centre to inform it about the project.