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2 Mar 2012

Chasing a mirage

"The Supreme Court direction to the Centre to constitute a special committee to pursue the outdated plan of linking India's rivers is based on a misplaced premise. "

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorial : Chasing a mirage: The national record on resettlement of people displaced by mega dam projects does not inspire confidence. As importantly, the plan's environmental aspects or cost-benefit calculus have not been considered. There is the additional challenge of taking along states let alone neighbouring countries.

The way forward to improve the prospects of water-deficit basins is to work on more efficient and less destructive options, like devoting resources for rainwater harvesting programmes of scale, raising irrigation efficiency, curbing pollution.

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