The Supreme Court and its directions on Interlinking of Rivers (ILR): India and her people will be greatly benefited by its implementation

The Supreme Court has recently given direction to Government of India to implement Inter Linking of Rivers (ILR) within a time frame as it brings many benefits to our people. Many feel that ILR has some inherent problems including reluctance of the States. But Supreme Court wants the net working of rivers (NWR). This article by J Prabudoss looks into the issue.

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03 May 2012, 1:33 pm

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J. Prabudoss

When the task force was formed for implementing ILR, they came across many impediments. First of all many States were reluctant to accept ILR as they were afraid of losing their water. Further ILR involves heavy pumping in many places making it uneconomical. This made the task force to look for alternate proposal.

They therefore invited alternate proposals for ILR from all over the Country, received many proposals and reviewed all of them with the help of independent IIT professors. They found that