The Ministry of Water Resources has shelved plans of linking Brahmaputra with Ganga following lukewarm response from the neighbour country. The development has significance because of the move to inter-link river basins of the country. The shelved proposal was to link the Brahmaputra with Ganga at Farakka in West Bengal. Minister of State for Water Resources, Bijoya Chakravarty, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, said that the Central Water Commission (CWC) in 1982 had prepared a feasibility report on Jogighopa barrage and Brahmaputra-Ganga link canal project flowing through Bangladesh by gravity as the first phase of development and augmentation of the flows of Ganga during dry season by diversion of Brahmaputra waters to the Ganga.