Kalam praises Gujarat’s river and lake interlinking achievements

Former President of India, popularly known as Peoples president Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam today praised achievements of Gujarat’s river and lake linking projects while talking to the students of IIM Ahmedabad.

While discussing interlinking of rivers in India in his class he said “There should be a program for interlinking of water bodies at state level across the nation. Every state should interlink it’s all the water bodies. Once this goal is achieved, there can be a nationwide interlinking program.”

Student in response to this narrated examples of Gujarat’s Sardar Sarovar Project, Narmada’s successful interlinking with river Sabarmati and interlinking of different lakes in Ahmedabad.

“Very good” Kalam said for these achievements and said “There should be a research on good practices and such practices should be published for wider reach.”