{"id":89208,"date":"2019-08-07T17:12:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T11:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8900"},"modified":"2019-08-07T17:12:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T11:42:40","slug":"bihar-centre-approves-rs-4900-crore-project-to-link-kosi-mechi-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bihar-centre-approves-rs-4900-crore-project-to-link-kosi-mechi-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar: Centre approves Rs 4,900-crore project to link Kosi, Mechi rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Cabinet has approved Rs. 4,900 crore for Kosi-Mechi interlinking project in Bihar.This is the second river interlinking project after the Ken-Betwa project in Madhya Pradesh.&nbsp;<\/li><li>This decision was taken as every year floods had become a major reason for destruction.Hence,interlinking of Kosi and Mechi can provide a little relief to Bihar.<\/li><li>This project will provide a diversion to the surplus water of Kosi River through existing Hanuman Nagar barrage to Mechi River of Mahananda basin.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Further,Mechi River will also get water from another source and it will become a vast natural resource of irrigation.<\/li><li>This project has a possibility to escort the next green revolution in Seemanchal region.The project also does not involve displacement of population and there is no diversion of any forest land.<\/li><li>Ken-Betwa Interlinking is country\u2019s first river interlinking project that will connect two rivers in Madhya Pradesh.<\/li><li>The project aims to transfer surplus water of Ken River to the Betwa basin through a concrete canal to irrigate India\u2019s worst drought-prone Bundelkhand region.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet has approved Rs. 4,900 crore for Kosi-Mechi interlinking project in Bihar.This is the second river interlinking project after the Ken-Betwa project in Madhya Pradesh.&nbsp; This decision was taken as every year floods had become a major reason for destruction.Hence,interlinking of Kosi and Mechi can provide a little relief to Bihar. This project will provide&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bihar-centre-approves-rs-4900-crore-project-to-link-kosi-mechi-rivers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bihar: Centre approves Rs 4,900-crore project to link Kosi, Mechi rivers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[2970,6626],"class_list":["post-89208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-bihar","tag-kosi-mechi-interlinking-project","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704728148},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89208","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}