Theambitious Indira Gandhi (Rajasthan) Canal Project , designed to meet the water needs of a large part of the desert belt of Rajastha, may well turn out to be an ecological disaster, experts fear. Though the final completion of the project is still awaited even 37 years after the digging had started, the basic flaw of the project was that the route of the 649-km canal, from Ganganagar in the north to Barmer in the south in the Thar desert, was decided solely by engineers and those familiar with problems of climate, wildlife, soil, etc.had hardly any role.