A first of its kind scientific initiative in the country is going to be made in Madhya Pradesh for ensuring health security of Narmada River. Under the initiative, bioanalysis of Narmada water will be made besides conducting a study of the standard physical and chemical reactions, which are necessary to keep the river water free of pollution. The speciality of the project being chalked out by Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA) for ensuring the health of the river is that apart from external causes of pollution, it will ensure standard norms of health of water by undertaking bio-research of water and paying attention to physical and chemical reactions in it. This concept of Narmada’s health security has been given the name of ‘Narmada Bio Health Monitoring. Propounder of this concept and vice-chairman of NVDA OP Rawat informed that desirable results have not been yielded by big-budget pollution-control programmes introduced in Ganga and other major rivers of the country. Keeping this in view, Narmada bio-health monitoring system has been developed on the lines of researches and studies made on health of rivers in Canada, Australia, France and other countries. Rawat informed that a system based on spot and lab studies and monitoring of rivers’ health has been developed in these counties. Almost similar system will be introduced in Narmada River. Under the proposed system, study centres will be set up right from the originating place of Narmada River upto Madhya Pradesh border. At these centres, invertebrates called Benthons will be studied. Benthons found in water indicate integrated effect of pollution. Benthons cannot withstand pollution and their ample presence in water is index of its good quality. Besides study of benthons under the bio-health monitoring system, bio-mapping of Narmada River will also be undertaken on the basis of other researches and studies. Efforts will be made to maintain quality of water on the basis of bio-mapping. Side by side, modern techniques will be made available to the local administrations of the districts along the banks of Narmada River for purification of filthy effluents from cities and habitats. For this, appropriate financial assistance is also proposed to be made available from Narmada Valley Development Authority. If fall in health indices is noticed during bio-health monitoring, process of water treatment will be set in motion after detecting its sources.