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Par Tapi Narmada river-linking project

2022 MAR 21

Preliminary   > Geography   >   Dams and reservoirs   >   water management

Why in news?

  • Tribals in Gujarat are protesting against the Centre’s Par Tapi Narmada river-linking project.

More about the news:

  • About 6065 hectares of land area will be submerged due to the proposed reservoirs. A total of 61 villages will be affected, of which one will be fully submerged and the remaining 60 partly.
  • The affected families may lose their lands or houses or both in the submergence when the reservoirs are created.
  • The districts where the project will be implemented are largely dominated, by tribals who fear displacement.

About Par Tapi Narmada river-linking project:

  • The Par Tapi Narmada link project was envisioned under the 1980 National Perspective Plan under the former Union Ministry of Irrigation and the Central Water Commission (CWC).
  • The project proposes to transfer river water from the surplus regions of the Western Ghats to the deficit regions of Saurashtra and Kutch.
  • It proposes to link three rivers:
    • Par, originating from Nashik in Maharashtra and flowing through Valsad, Gujarat.
    • Tapi from Saputara that flows through Maharashtra and Surat in Gujarat.
    • Narmada originating in Madhya Pradesh and flowing through Maharashtra and Gujarat.

Components of the project:

  • The link mainly includes the construction of seven dams (Jheri, Mohankavchali, Paikhed, Chasmandva, Chikkar, Dabdar and Kelwan), three diversion weirs and two tunnels.
  • Of these, the Jheri dam falls in Nashik, while the remaining dams are in Valsad and Dang districts of South Gujarat.
  • A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Gujarat, Maharashtra and the central government in 2010.
    • It envisaged that Gujarat would get the benefit of the Par Tapi Narmada link project through en-route irrigation from the link canal and in the drought-prone Saurashtra Kutch region by way of substitution.

PRACTICE QUESTION:

Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding?

1. Par river flows through two Indian state

2. Tapi river originates from Satpura Range

3. Narmada river flows in a rift valley,

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

(a) 1 and 2 only

(b) 2 only

(c) 1 and 3 only

(d) 1,2 and 3

Answer