Bharat Rakshak

If Bangladesh refuses to cooperate, how do you physically transfer the surplus Brahmaputra water to the Ganga? Siliguri corridor is too narrow to dig wide canals etc. Rajeev, Why do you think it’s too narrow for a couple of hundred-foot canal/tunnel? Brahmaputra enters B’desh close to the border of...

I have hard time understanding and gauging the importance and effectiveness of attack helos in direct combat with any kind of land formation, with or without air cover. Although they are so handy for logistics and brass/elite movement but how can a inherently bulky, noisy, low flying, slow speed mac...

Good information on project – Suresh Prabhu is making some progress Timetable – Total 30 links (several other links are alternatives) Feasibility study – Completed by 2005 (Already completed for 6 links) Detailed project reports – Completed by 2006 (Already started for 6 completed feasibility studie...

Anirban, Good information thanks! About farakka treaty with Bangladesh – It’s treaty for dry season (Jan 1st to May 31st), normal Mansoon hits Kerala on 1st of June, each year and reaches Northern India/Himalayas on mid/end June. You can see the flow starts increasing at farakka after April. From th...

Kautilaya, We have a serious problem of water shortage in most parts of India, rain harvesting by old ways could be a great partial solution (and should not be discounted because of interlinking) in the areas where we get enough rain. Water table could be raised to a more and easily exploitable leve...

Some questions: a) Is it essential to link the rivers through a canal system? Why arent pipelines being considered? J karthik, The magnitude of the water they are going to divert is too big to consider pipelines (without compressors/water tower) for main links. Also for smaller canals you need flex...

Anirban, Thanks! For finding that good information (Rajya sabha), I found couple of new things that I didn’t count before. Well, The doubts/counter arguments you are bringing are not new (or baseless/incorrect for that matter) and this project was not implemented/started yet partially because of sam...

Manavendra, Water leakage and subsequent marshing of the surrounding land are real issues with most dam and canal projects. They can be avoided by right alignment and waterproofing. If canal follows natural gravity slope (read fast flow) and passes through the deepest land there would be very few ch...

Anirban, I can answer 4 of your questions- 1. Has there been any cost-benefit analysis of the entire system? That’s exactly what they are doing for last several decades, Ain't they? Cost – Total cost – 5,60,000 corer (will easily qualify as world’s largest project ever) Benefits – Total hydropower g...