{"id":102495,"date":"2021-04-21T09:39:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T04:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=102495"},"modified":"2021-04-21T10:53:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T05:23:15","slug":"concerns-associated-to-ken-betwa-link-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/concerns-associated-to-ken-betwa-link-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns Associated to Ken-Betwa Link project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Synopsis <\/strong>\u2013The <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-the-ken-betwa-link-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ken-Betwa link project<\/a> raised serious concerns about the project&#8217;s benefits and the massive environmental impact it would have.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Introduction-<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On <strong>World Water Day (March 22nd),<\/strong> MP and UP signed a tripartite agreement with the Centre to introduce the Ken-Betwa link Project (KBLP).<\/li>\n<li>But the project will have a significant environmental impact, and its benefits are uncertain.<\/li>\n<li>The project would be wasting significant sums of public funds. Whereas the project will do little to address Bundelkhand&#8217;s water shortages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What is KEN-Betwa Project?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ken-Betwa Link Project (KBLP) <strong>aims to transfer surplus water<\/strong> from the Ken river in MP to Betwa in UP. It will provide water to irrigate the drought-prone Bundelkhand area, which is spread across two states&#8217; districts.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Ken-Betwa Link Project\u00a0is the first project under the National Perspective Plan for t<strong>he interlinking of rivers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The central government has proposed a 90:10 funding pattern for the Ken Betwa Interlinking Project. The centre bearing 90 percent of the total estimated cost.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Advantage of Interlining of Ken-Betwa Rivers-<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>First, Irrigation \u2013<\/strong> The project will provide sustainable means of irrigation water to the Bundelkhand region in U.P. and M.P. It will reduce excessive dependence on groundwater.\n<ul>\n<li>The to-be-built Daudhan dam will irrigate nearly 6,00,000 hectares in four districts in M.P. and 2,51,000 hectares in four districts in U.P.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second, Disaster mitigation-<\/strong> The river linking project will be a solution to recurring droughts in the Bundelkhand region.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third, Electricity Production-<\/strong>\u00a0The project will generate 103 MW of hydropower and provide drinking water to 62 lakh people.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Concern related to the project<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>First, Environmental concern- <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The <strong>12,500 hectares of land will submerge<\/strong>\u00a0by the project.<\/li>\n<li>The project would harm <strong>Panna tiger reserve.<\/strong> It will cause irreversible damage to around 40% of the tiger reserve&#8217;s area.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Disrupting ecosystems &#8211; <\/strong>Approximately 7.2 lakh trees will cut down. This will have an impact on the rainfall of the region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Second, The project is not economically viable-<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>In the past few years, the river did not always flow in a steady stream.<\/li>\n<li>There is a significant financial expense associated with project implementation and maintenance. It is increasing as a result of project delays.<\/li>\n<li>Another challenge would be that the Ken River flows 60-70 feet lower than the Betwa River. It requires at least 30% of the 103 MW produced power to pump the water up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Third, Clearance issue-<\/strong> The Supreme Court&#8217;s Central Empowered Committee, which had raised questions about the Ken-Betwa project, did not issue a clearance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Way forward-<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sustainable and cost-effective alternatives to the Ken-Betwa project have not been considered.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Government should consider <strong>multiple water-harvesting<\/strong> and <strong>water-conservation methods.<\/strong> It could adequately store and efficiently make use of rainfall the region receives annually, without the need for building a reservoir and dam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GGJ8GH33I.1&amp;imageview=0\">The Hindu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"lmfomYKcyB\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interlinking-of-rivers-project-in-india-explained-pointwise\/\">Interlinking of Rivers Project in India &#8211; Explained, Pointwise<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Interlinking of Rivers Project in India &#8211; Explained, Pointwise&#8221; &#8212; Free UPSC IAS Preparation For Aspirants\" src=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interlinking-of-rivers-project-in-india-explained-pointwise\/embed\/#?secret=9inxdEmwMO#?secret=lmfomYKcyB\" data-secret=\"lmfomYKcyB\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis \u2013The Ken-Betwa link project raised serious concerns about the project&#8217;s benefits and the massive environmental impact it would have.\u00a0 Introduction- On World Water Day (March 22nd), MP and UP signed a tripartite agreement with the Centre to introduce the Ken-Betwa link Project (KBLP). But the project will have a significant environmental impact, and its&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/concerns-associated-to-ken-betwa-link-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Concerns Associated to Ken-Betwa Link project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[1332],"class_list":["post-102495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-geog_5","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704852696},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}