Latest News
In this Issue
Most Popular on DTE Site
- Poison in disguise 1
- Health ministry sets timeframe for keeping animals treated with antibiotics out of food chain
- Auroville’s alternative galaxy
- Chaos in the iron age 2
- It’s a demographic disaster
- So much to give
- Gujarat pollution board gets a makeover in efficiency 33
- Mirage of a river 1
- Carbon dioxide crosses 400 ppm mark
- 'Will fight POSCO till last breath'
- Environment ministry wants to restore night traffic through Bandipur tiger reserve 52
- A green facade 44
- Diesel: when bad policy makes for toxic hell 38
- Gujarat pollution board gets a makeover in efficiency 33
- What’s good insulation? 30
- How vulnerable are India's nuclear power plants to disaster 28
- Grand distraction called river interlinking 28
- Eat at your own risk 27
- Green energy takes toll on green cover 26
- Temporary solution, permanent jam 25
On Facebook
News Briefs
Weak links aplenty
0 Comments
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2003
A recent announcement by Union minister for water resources Arjun Charan Sethi shows that although India's mega river interlinking project is at a nascent stage, it is already in choppy waters. Sethi revealed that the river networking task force would try to evolve a consensus among states on solutions to problems that are likely to crop up in drought and flood-prone areas. Significantly, many states have rejected the respective proposals put forward to them.
Meanwhile, Congress leader Vikram Mahajan said that when the party was in power, it had rejected the same scheme apprehending large-scale displacement of people.
O
P
E
N
DTE Must Read
Good job bringing this to light. People won't realise how huge the problem is and municipalities are woefully ill equipped to...
Agreed; mining can never be sustainable, but then how do you get the metals to make all the things you need in the course of...
Very good piece.