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Such projects will be provided financial assistance by the Government of India in the form of Central grant which will be 90% of the estimated cost of such projects for their completion in a time bound manner. [1] I. Criteria for selection of National Projects II. Procedure for inclusion as National project III.Funding of the National Project IV.
Map of India based on survey of rivers of India.. The Indian rivers interlinking project is a proposed large-scale civil engineering project that aims to effectively manage water resources in India by linking rivers using a network of reservoirs and canals to enhance irrigation and groundwater recharge and reduce persistent floods in some parts and water shortages in other parts of the country.
The Telugu Ganga project is a joint water supply scheme implemented in India in 1980s by the then Andhra Pradesh chief minister Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao and Tamil Nadu chief minister Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran to provide drinking water to Chennai City in Tamil Nadu.
The list is compiled from the 2011 India Census Report published by Government of India. [2] [3] The rank is based on the percentage of households which have access to safe drinking water. Kerala ranked highest with 97.6%, while Andhra has the worst rank with only 33.5% households having access to safe drinking water. National average stands at ...
An example is the city of Jabalpur where the central government and the state government financed a ₹ 130 million (US$1.5 million) water supply project from 2000–2004 to be operated by the Jabalpur Municipal Corporation, an entity that collected only less than half of its operational costs in revenues even before this major investment. Even ...
The project was opposed by farmers relying on the Bisalpur water for irrigation. On 13 June 2005, 5 farmers were shot dead while protesting the diversion of Bisalpur water to Jaipur. [ 6 ] The Bisalpur water reached Jaipur in 2009, leading to public protests in surrounding districts like Ajmer , Bhilwara , Dausa and Tonk , whose residents ...
The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi at ceremony to inaugurate Aji-3 Dam under Phase-I of Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation (SAUNI) Yojana, in Rajkot, Gujarat. Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation (SAUNI) is a project launched by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with objective of filling 115 major dams by diverting floodwaters overflowing from the Sardar Sarovar Dam across the Narmada ...
The water supply to 90% of India's territory is provided by interstate rivers, leading to an increasing number of conflicts between states and across the country regarding water-sharing issues. [27] Several innovative approaches to improving water supply and sanitation have been tested in India, particularly in the early 2000s.