KEN BETWA RIVER INTERLINKING PROJECT
Ken Betwa interlinking or Rivers (ILR) project was lauded as the first river inter-link project under the National Perspective Plan (NPP) . It was given the Union Cabinet's approval in July 2014 but was stalled because of protests from environmentalists and wildlife conservationists. In this article, we can see all the aspects about KBLP On the occasion of World Water Day on March 22 , a tripartite memorandum of agreement was signed between Union Minister of Jal Shakti and the chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh to implement the ambitious Ken-Betwa Link Project (KBLP). Under this project, water from the Ken river will be transferred to the Betwa river to irrigate the draught prone Bundelkhand region. Both these rivers are tributaries of Yamuna River , which is the largest tributary of the Ganga River . The catchment of the river extends to the states of Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh. According to the Jal Shak...