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 Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh BJP MP and Narmada
Samagra Secretary Anil Madhav Dave has advocated the need to
implement the controversial river linking scheme on a trial
basis to assess its merits and impacts, instead of putting
the project in cold storage.
"Although the river-linking project is not on the
agenda of the upcoming river festival in MP, discarding any
scheme without studying its impact is not a wise decision. It
would have been better if three-four rivers are initially
linked to study their environmental, financial and other
aspects and, only then conclusions should be drawn about the
scheme," Dave told .
The three-day second International River Festival
will be held at Bandrabhan, the confluence of Narmada and Tawa
rivers from March 21-23 about 75 km away from here in
Hoshangabad district.
This festival is totally focussed on enriching sources
of water in the rivers and improving their water quantity and
quality, Dave said.
"However, the scheme should be implemented for seeing
its merits if former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had
said something on it. Politicising the issue of rivers is a
dirty way of doing politics," he said. When NDA lost power in 2004, Vajpayee had personally
wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to go ahead with his
two ambitious schemes -- inter-linking of rivers in the
country and Golden Quadrilateral Plan to connect four metros
directly through roads.
However, the project hit a road block was later put on
back burner after Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi
described the whole idea as "disastrous" on economic and
ecological grounds.
Dave said that the festival will mainly discuss river
and pollution at individual, social and governmental level
during the three-day long event.
Besides it will also take up as tributaries of the
main issues like-- river water conservation area and
pollution, river and chemical agriculture, river and culture,
river and forests, river and bio-diversity and river and NGOs.
Also experts and NGOs working on the conservation of
rivers including from India, US, Norway, Nepal, Austria,
Australia, Brazil, Germany, Poland, Chile and Venezuela will
take part in the festival to share their field experiences.
The first river festival was organised in 2008 by
Narmada Samagra-- a voluntary organisation working for the
conservation of the holy river-- and it was decided that this
event would be held every two years for conserving rivers and
increasing their catchment area.
"Everybody wants water from it (Narmada), but no one is
giving a thought to its source of water and how to increase it
to ensure enough water in Madhya Pradesh's lifeline," Dave
added. |
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Updated :
Friday, 19 Mar 2010, 14:11 [IST] |
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