Ahmedabad, DeshGujarat

Government of Rajasthan has reportedly demanded to allocate Sabarmati river water to the state under river linking project from the Ministry of Water Resources & River development from the Government of India.

Union Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharati in a question related to allocation of Water to the state from the water flowing in to sea, the Minister in the Rajya Sabha said that, “it is for the State Governments concerned to formulate, plan, investigate and implement water resources projects, as per their priorities. The role of this Ministry is limited to being catalytic, providing technical assistance, and central assistance to identified on-going projects under various schemes being serviced by this Ministry.”

“National Water Development Agency (NWDA) under this Ministry is studying the preliminary level of the feasibility of the following three inter-linking of rivers projects for Rajasthan: (i) Rajasthan – Sabarmati Link Project: The link is proposed as an extension of Yamuna-Rajasthan link to transfer 5,924 MCM of water at tail end of Yamuna-Rajasthan link for the benefit of southern Rajasthan and Gujarat. The proposed link passes through Jaisalmer, Barmer and Jalore districts of Rajasthan and Banaskantha, Mehsana and Gandhinagar districts of Gujarat to irrigate about 7,38,600 ha, out of which 5,35,000 ha. lies in Rajasthan.”

Other two links are Parbati -Kalisindh -Chambal Link and Yamuna-Rajasthan Link Project.

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