The field may be just 2 acres but the electricity consumed several fold as these appliances are for domestic use as well . Why not fix Maximum Kilowatts per connection based on land to be irrigated and the Balance Consumption be charged as Normal . Let us save Crores that are being wasted today as Major Farm Houses use plenty of Electricity at free charge ??? Why ??? Let PMO think of saving this money as was done for LPG subsidy and help the Nation . Jai Hind .
about by many as a panacea for most water related problems faced by the country.
Some political and other leaders (not to mention social butterflies such as Rajnikanth) keep talking about river linking from time to time to draw attention to themselves.
What is the credibility of this so called idea?
None at all!
Till date, no kind of a credible Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) study has been carried out by any agency - public or private - for such a project. That is because no one has funded one! It requires a great deal of money to do a proper and comprehensive EIA !
However, there are some easy to understand adverse impacts that such gigantic projects as river interlinking cause. These impacts are well established by numerous EIAs done for several large hydrological projects worldwide.
These are
1. Un-bearably huge capital requirement. It is so easy for the borrowings made for the project to end up as huge NPAs to add up further to the huge existing ones
2. Interlinking can caused seismic hazards in several seismically prone regions that are abundant in this geographically diverse country
3. Huge extent of distortions in the existing eco system (loss and degradation of forests and biodiversity)
4. Creation of canals and reservoirs will invariably cause mass deforestation
5. Inter state water disputes will rise steeply in number and become difficult to manage
6. Interlinking of rivers will disturb the water cycle, thus adding to the reasons for climate change
Re: Linking of rivers is talked
by piri on Nov 05, 2017 04:57 PM
7. Natural habitats of flora and fauna will be negatively impacted by interlinking of rivers. Their migration paths, already disrupted heavily by the exploding Indian population, will be further criss crossed
8. Interlinking may cause flooding and water logging in new regions thereby leading to detrimental change in nature of soil
9. Interlinking rivers can and will severely impact inland fishing negatively
10. There would be extensive demographic changes caused by disruptions to livelihoods of people, especially those of tribals and other poor people in rural regions. Providing for such huge displaced populations would be an unsustainable burden for any government. This is particularly easy to visualize considering how the governments both at the centre and in the states have dithered on properly resettling and rehabilitating displaced people in several projects that are relatively much smaller compared to river interlinking
11. Changes in flooding patterns will impact life cycle of species, affect soil quality and damage and erode vast areas
12. Most rivers gradually change their courses over 70 to 100 years. Once they are linked, future change of courses could create huge practical problems for the project
13. Pumping of water would be required at a very large number of points. The energy requirement for this would be gigantic
14. Many rivers are highly polluted. Interlinking can pollute clean ones too
All in all, interlinking of rivers in India is a bad idea !
There is something called Town Planning? In India,we do everything as per our desire and personal needs irrespective of its consequences? So,the result is flooding. "What we sow,we reap".
As the writer rightly points out, be it any city even Srinagar flooding is always "the result of massive, unplanned concretisation of the city, with little regard to preserving wetlands and lakes". This has been going on everywhere (including my town-ghaziabad). The lakes have been covered , the drains are not visible and whatever drains are available, are filled with dust and debris. Lot of this cannot be undone but perhaps a further degradation can be stopped and whatever can be corrected should be corrected. II fundamental step should be rainwater and river water management. I wonder what happened to the wonderful idea of Sh Vajpayee-of joining the rivers. He had , at least conceived the idea. Now China has thought of a 1000 KM tunnel, so why this concept of Sh Vajpayee-a 1000 Km river, cannot be developed further. Virendra
Go to any city in India, when two people talk at a shop or restaurant, the topic invariably centered on 'property'. Some one has 200 yards, 150 yards and so on ( as if after one is dead, he would need 200 yards to get cremated).
The only investment known to Indians is 'Real estate' - the reason why wealth created during liberalization got all sucked into overpriced 'properties'.
Go to Mumbai, Hyderabad or Chennai, more than 50% of the city is slums and trash. They get flooded even after moderate rain, they stink of sewage and disease.
We had a chance to correct this during 2000s. But the quality of people we elect - the average netas who themselves are the main stake holders in real estate ensured that it swelled swelled and now, it is a monster.
There are 3 main reasons for not only flooding of cities but everything that happens in cities.
- Real estate greed - Real estate greed - Real estate greed
Gone are the days when we used to call the living space 'home'. Now everything is 'property'. The 'property' mania bred like a disease and every one got sucked into it.
Having Majority of the black money parked into it, real estate has grown into a monster devouring life of urban India.
The single prime cause behind annual flooding of each of our cities is choking of the drains by plastic bags. This problem can never be solved without total BAN on PRODUCTION OF PLASTIC BAGS. Each of our central and state governments will only pay lip service on stopping use of them, but will never promulgate such a total ban on their PRODUCTION. They do not have teeth for such an action because of the power of the plastic lobby and for taking part in the loot from the flood-relief funds. Also, thousands of COWS are dying by eating these bags, because of choking of their intestines.
All city municipality were responsible for flood. Every municipality Engineers are engaged to draw plan & approval. ALl municipal engineers are mor inefficient & also corrupted. Even political system also partially responsivble