C.R. Patil, Union Minister for Jal Shakti, will chair the meeting, which will be held through video-conferencing.

The stark differences in water availability in the river basins in the country has thrown up the idea of interlinking of rivers, but this project is not foolproof.

Interlinking rivers can facilitate water transport, making it a greener and more cost-effective mode of transportation and reducing the pressure on road and rail infrastructure.

Interlinking of rivers is a very expensive proposal. It has huge adverse environmental impacts on land, forests, biodiversity, rivers and the livelihood of millions of people. It is a socially ...

India's mega civil engineering project entailing interlinking of its rivers could have far-reaching ramifications, say experts. To call the interlinking of rivers an ambitious project would be a gross ...

The proposal for interlinking of India’s rivers (ILR) is based on a series of erroneous presumptions. It is claimed that since some parts of India chronically have floods and others have ...

Thus, interlinking rivers, by increasing water supply, invariably results in women’s empowerment — a dream already being realised by PM Modi’s Ujjwala Yojana.

The Cost of Interlinking India’s Rivers The environmental, social, and diplomatic costs of the world’s largest irrigation infrastructure project. By Sudha Ramachandran July 20, 2016 ...

A series of moves by the current dispensation at the Centre, along with some of the state governments, since March 2021 has been towards orchestrating a push for the Interlinking of Rivers (ILR ...

Reduced September precipitation can dry rivers post-monsoon, augmenting water stress across the country and rendering interlinking dysfunctional.