Nar-Par-Tapi river linking project approved – Diligent IAS 07/09/2019 – Posted in: Daily News
NAR-PAR-TAPI RIVER LINKING PROJECT
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Topics covered: About Nar-Par-Tapi river linking project
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The Maharashtra State Cabinet approved the Nar-Par-Tapi and Damanganga-Pinjal river linking project.
- Nar-Par-Tapi provides 52 thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) of water for Marathwada and parts of north Maharashtra.
- The state government is determined to save the water that drains from the Konkan region into the sea and bring it to Marathwada.
Nar-Par-Tapi river linking project
- Five rivers are to be linked for this project.
- It is a combination of a lift irrigation scheme, tunnels and canals.
- The State has taken Israel’s assistance to help solve the region’s water crisis. Israel is considered to be an expert in water planning.
| Type of Project | Multipurpose |
| Location | Maharashtra and Gujarat |
| Flood Control | No flood control envisaged |
| Navigation | No navigation proposed |
| River basin | Par, Auranga, Ambica, Purma, Mindhola, Tapi, Kim and Narmada |
Highlights
- Farmers in Marathwada must switch 100% to drip irrigation to cultivate sugar cane to tackle water woes.
- 80% subsidy as an incentive is provided to the farmers to switch over to micro-irrigation.
National Perspective Plan for Water Resources Development
The erstwhile Union Ministry of Irrigation and Central Water Commission formulated, in the year 1980, a National Perspective Plan (NPP) for water resources development through inter-basin transfer of water which comprises of two components:
- Himalayan Rivers Development Component.
- Peninsular Rivers Development Component.
The distinctive feature of the NPP is that the transfer of water from the surplus basin to deficit basin would essentially be by gravity and only in small reaches it would be by lifts not exceeding 120 metres.
Himalayan Rivers Development
Himalayan Rivers Development envisages construction of storage reservoirs on the principal tributaries of the Ganga and the Brahmaputra in India, Nepal and Bhutan, along with inter-linking canal systems to transfer surplus flows of the eastern tributaries of the Ganga to the west, apart from linking of the main Brahmaputra and its tributaries with the Ganga and Ganga with Mahanadi and augmentation of flow at Farakka.
Peninsular Rivers Development
This component is divided into four major Parts:
- Interlinking of Mahanadi–Godavari-Krishna-Pennar-Cauvery rivers and building storages at potential sites in these basins
- Interlinking of west-flowing rivers, north of Mumbai and south of Tapi
- Diversion of other west flowing rivers
- Interlinking of Ken-Chambal Rivers
Par – Tapi – Narmada link project is one of the 16 link proposals under Peninsular Rivers Development Component.
Source: The Hindu
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