Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Prof. Pranab Kumar Ray (Director, Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Research, Kolkata) scrutinises the need for water sharing between India and China, dispels misconceptions and provides a framework for an Integrated Basin Water Management system. India and China can put to planning and management a vast amount of water between them. An …
Software engineer-turned politician and national convenor of BJP's water management cell Shriram Vedire has been appointed as adviser to the ministry of water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation. The appointment was made on Thursday when the government brought in senior IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre Anuj Kumar Bishnoi …
In right earnest to prevent floods and water shortage VIT University Chancellor G. Viswanathan has appealed to the Central government to take up river link project to solve the water shortage faced by many States. Inaugurating a 5-day training programme on ‘Sustainable Development and Management of Ground Water Resources,’ organised …
Thousands of people from 10 villages around Ugamedi village in Bhavnagar district were all smiles on Tuesday. The once parched Sonal river was flowing bank to bank. After almost two years of hard work, the project to link two rivers - Keri and Sonal - taken up by Surat-based diamond …
Parched areas in South India may no longer be water starved if Karnataka plans to link Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna and Cauvery in consulation with the states concerned succeed. "The government is planning to link these rivers - Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna and Cauvery - to solve water problems afflicting parched areas …
A proposal for forest clearance to the Ken-Betwa river-interlinking project, which involves diverting 6,000 hectares of the Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, has been put up to the Environment Ministry's statutory appraisal panel. About 80 per cent of forests required for the project fall in the tiger reserve on …
Little progress has been made in the three inter-linking of river proposals, which aims to divert surplus water to deficit areas and reduce chances of flood. Official sources said the state government has requested National Water Development Agency (NWDA) to prepare a detailed project report of the proposed Vansadhara-Rushikulya project. …
India is considering 76 river-linking projects to address water scarcity in some parts of the world’s second-most populous nation, according to the government. India’s National Water Development Authority has completed reports to connect the Ken and Betwa rivers in north India and the Damanganga and Pinjal in the west, Santosh …
Call to abandon river linking proposal The Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad has called upon the Centre to abandon the controversial Pampa-Achenkovil-Vaipar Link Project which would spell doom to Central Kerala. The ecological committee of KSSP that met here on Tuesday said that the proposed river linking scheme was totally unscientific …
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan government is heavily promoting Narendra Modi's pet project of linking rivers, as it seeks to address the desert state's drinking water and irrigation requirements. Two months after Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje took a small step towards launching the concept by announcing a small pilot project, the state …
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the much awaited Ken-Betwa river link which will benefit Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh in terms of meeting irrigation, drinking water and electricity needs of people across six districts in the two states. The Cabinet earmarked over Rs 9,000 crore for the …
Concern over impact of diversion of water from State rivers to Vaipar basin. The very idea of interlinking the rivers of India has its roots in the thoughts of M. Viswesvarayya, the stalwart engineer of yesteryear. The interlinking of rivers for inland navigation was proposed even earlier, during the British …
The government will not allow any move to interlink Pampa, Achenkovil rivers in the state with Tamil Nadu's Vaipar river, chief minister Oommen Chandy said in the assembly on Thursday. “The state assembly had, in August 2003, passed a unanimous resolution against this and the matter is now before the …
The newly elected BJP-NDA Government today made it clear that the much-touted river linking project will not be carried out without the concurrence of the riparian states or beneficiary states. This is a major relief for states like Punjab which have a running feud with its neighbours over river water …
The target of inter-linking of rivers can be achieved in 10 years, Minister for Water Resources and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti told Lok Sabha on Thursday. This will strengthen the Prime Minister’s Gram Sinchai Yojna, she added. Responding to supplementaries in Lok Sabha on a question relating to inter-linking of …
The National Democratic Alliance government will execute the Ken-Betwa rivers (both flow in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh) linking project on a priority basis, Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti said in Rajya Sabha on Monday. "The detailed project reports (DPR) of Phase-I and -II have been completed and communicated to …
While experts from Kolhapur said that the union government had failed to satisfy the needs of the agriculture and cooperative sectors in its budget announced on Thursday, Member of Parliament Raju Shetty, a farmers' leader in western Maharashtra, said that the union has started taking "appropriate steps" to boost these …
Budget proposals 2014-15 evoked mixed reactions from economic experts in the city on Thursday, with the Agri-Infrastructure Fund welcome, while the decision on FDI in defence and other areas faced came down under criticism. "Though the Pradhanmantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana to improve irrigation facilities is a welcome step, revival of …
Rs. 8,992 crore set aside for irrigation and flood management With focus on Ganga rejuvenation and irrigation, allocation of funds for the Water Resources Ministry has gone up from Rs. 2,076 crore in 2013-14 to a whopping Rs. 13,836 crore in budget allocations for 2014-15. The Rs. 8,992 crore set …
