The Centre has announced that it will take up the task of
connecting Manas-Sankosh-Teesta-Ganga in Assam, West Bengal and Bihar. The
three states will soon be approached for their consent.
This project, if implemented, will not only provide
irrigation and water supply benefits to the three states but also make provide
large quantity of surplus water for transfer to the southern states.
Once these three states agree for to the plan, the Centre
will take up the task of preparing a detailed project report (DPR), including
the modalities of implementation, water sharing and actual cost of the project.
The Manas-Sankosh-Teesta-Ganga link will be the fifth
interstate project. While actual execution work on the first project, Ken-Betwa
link, will begin by the end of this year, three others are at various stages
before being taken up for the Cabinet approval.
All these are part of the total 30 interlinking of rivers
(ILR) projects, which was conceived during the earlier NDA regime (1999-2004)
under the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. It includes both
interstate- and intrastate-river linking projects. Decision to take up the
Manas-Sankosh-Teesta-Ganga for linking was announced by the minister of state
for water resources Sanwar Lal Jat after the fifth meeting of the special
committee for ILR.
Updating the committee on the status of the ILR projects,
Jat said, "Various clearances related to environment, wildlife and forest
for the Ken-Betwa link project are in an advanced stage of processing. I hope
with all statutory clearance, we will be able to start the actual execution of
work on the project by the end of this year".
He said the government would implement this national project
as a model for the entire ILR programme which will go a long way in enhancing
water and food security of the country.
Water resources/irrigation ministers from Tamil Nadu,
Gujarat, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, UP, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh attended the
meeting as members of the committee. Some of them were of the view that the ILR
projects should be implemented within a definite timeframe.
The water-sharing issue between Maharashtra and Gujarat also
came up for discussion during the meeting as both the states had recently taken
a tough stand over the ILR projects. It had become a bone of contention between
the two states when Gujarat had in April demanded that Maharashtra must agree
to share more water from Tapi if it wanted more water from the proposed
Damanganga-Pinjal link, which will supply water to Mumbai.
Referring to those links, Jat said the work for preparation
of DPR of Par-Tapi-Narmada link project was in concluding stage and it was
expected to be completed by this month end. He said the issue of water sharing
between both the states in respect to Damanganga-Pinjal and Par-Tapi-Narmada
project would be addressed after the completion of the DPR of the
Par-Tapi-Narmada link project.
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