Rediff can guide nation.How much is rainfall i each area, river water flow, what goes to sea, where reservoirs can be built, canals for link, height, tunnel boring machines needed, gravity aided & pumped spots.nation can solve.China diverting Bramaputra.India suffers.
Re: Re: water
by Exposed on Apr 27, 2015 05:14 PM
correct.out of the money that will be spent on inter-linking rivers, some money would go into their pockets.so no wonder they are coming up with new plans to steal money in such ways.
Re: Re: water
by amit on Apr 27, 2015 05:14 PM
Brain dead . Yes and what about you.
Imagine that kasmir rivers are flooded and Delhi doesnt have water. Cant it happen that instead of releasing the extra water from river into villages they can be diverted somewhere nere where the rivers have dried.
Re: Re: water
by Anup on Apr 27, 2015 05:21 PM
Point taken..but somewhere we need to execute such projects..We need to do some sacrifices if we need to see country develop.
S Janakrajan seems it be willfully ignorant, Interlinking is the only way that we can harvest the most precious resource we have: Water.
When the poor farmers are staring at suicide, we need to everything possible to help them not push them over.
Such pseudo scientist are a bane for India's development. Unless this academia and scientific establishment is rescued from the Marxist left liberal cabal, future generation of India will never have a scientific temperament.
Interlinking of rivers is the need of the hour, .Yes it may be ecologically not possible or not good, but the country on the whole has to progress , not any particular states . Out of the box thinking is needed & if implemented with the majority of the concerns , correctly implemented. As for the money part , what is spent on flood relief, every second year should be enough to make this project . As for rivers being state subjects , all the states together make up the nation, so if needed change the laws. A must poject inspite of the so called perceived issues.
Re: Need of the hour
by veera reddy on Apr 27, 2015 05:19 PM
I agree with the reader.we could not have built Bhacranangal and nagarjunasagar, if we would have consulted this pseudo scientists. Better to go ahead soon on rivers interlinking soon.
Mr.Janakrajan disastrous to this country, he might have Govt employ. Any projects having advantages & disadvantages, River linking project will help 1 crore farmers , but definatly same time 5000 farmers will loose land. Author worried about 5000 farmers only, he is not bother about indian nations development as well as over all benifit. India is not developed because of many more Mr.Janak are living in India
Re: Professor S Janakrajan is disastrous to India
by kumar kn on Apr 27, 2015 04:14 PM
The arm chair experts and pessimists have already got into the act. Even before the study is done these guys are saying that rivers linking cannot be done. Has China not done the same with success and millions benefitted? The same pessimist reasons were promoted when our Dams were being built. What will happen to the displaced persons, who will take care of them, blah, blah, blah??
Medha Patkar was against the Sardar Sarovar Dam but Modi ignored her and her Gang and went ahead and millions now have water when earlier they had not seen a drop. Every project has advantages and disadvantages. It does not mean we give up the Grand Dream of giving water to all water starved places. If some leader had started this project 50 years ago we would have solved the water problem. Hope Modi will be such a leader now.
Not at all impressed by the reasons and logic given by Dr. Rao. He seems to be afraid of the size, cost, difficulties in rising, huge acquisition of land, cost of maintenance etc. But he has not discussed the advantages of the linking to compare the difficulties with advantages. The general terms of loss of flora, fauna, live support systems etc. are a typical NGO type cries, without any basis of datas to assess them.
linking of rivers is a boon for the country and it is not certainly a disaster. people such as professor janak rajan are the disaster for the country because they ensure that the country won't take up such ambitious project by raising unnecessary fears about the ecological disasters. It commonsense that areas with abundant drinking and irrigation prosper across the world. We must and should go ahead with river linking project and not fear about associated issues like rehabilitation of displaced people. Government has to address this. once rivers are linked, the country becomes economically strong and the people prosper. that is the biggest rehabilitation can any government can give its people.
Re: linking of rivers-
by Raju on Apr 27, 2015 12:54 PM
he might be etalianaglickers, etalian people cannot think out of the box, they can only think how to loot
but compare to issues which will come in future may be big disaster. water is very important whether it is for irrigation or for drinking. Please link all revers this is also one of the dream projects from BJP.
Re: problems might be there
by Aftab on Apr 27, 2015 11:42 AM
BJP has many dreams and it is not bad to dream. In fact if there is no dream, there is no motivation and there will be no progress.
The priorities are missing. Should we spend 50 lakh crore to link rivers, be self sufficient in defense or run a bullet train on a track which has very good connectivity, have world class research centres, educational institutions, eliminate poverty,improve infrastructur and killer disease. Everything can no be done when resources are limited.
Money should be spent judiciously and not to fulfill dream of a person or a political party.
BJP has promised linking of river in last election and should say now that it is not worth perusing.
Re: Re: problems might be there
by Raju on Apr 27, 2015 12:51 PM
u may not know now, when u r next generation facing water problem where they wont get to drink water then u will come to know, 100 cr also sensible for me. once they invest we will see more returns than investment
Re: Re: Re: problems might be there
by praveen bhosale on Apr 27, 2015 04:17 PM
Why they dont plan for water conservation, Small check dams etc. istead of wasting money on check dams. How many people saving water, how many people use rain water & how many people do rain harvesting during manson period? Only discussion......... nothing will happen
Inter Linking of River is to divert the excess water during rainy season ( excess water means the water follow into the sea with out any use )
his point of view is very narrow. it is not at all possible diverted water get pumped to southern state(TN) directly( through pipe line ), it will flow thorugh all the way and give more benefit where it flow through, the same odisa, MP, UP Bhiar state\'s dry land will also get benefited. is it true or not?
He wasnot able point out any specific disaster which may occur due to inter linking.
The rivers like Bhramaputra is alone capable of providing water to the entire country for 365 days. we need to build a network of canals and divert waters to all district of the country. i know it is not easy but we should make it possible so India will become rich in agriculture and farmer suicides will reduce drastically
The writer & rediff are tow entities who are comfortable with current system, they don't want think out of box & if some one is thinking about it they are bound to make allegations, this kind of mind sets have kept India too far behind & got labeled as underachievers. lot of energy is already wasted in convincing people on one issue & other every time, because of the climate being created by such anti national thoughts, it is possible that they are getting funds from the NGO like Green peace operated by USA firm Ford Foundation. there are many like them who dont want India to prosper or prosper on their terms!! it is not necessary to have expert advice every time, use your common sense to move forward..
