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Highlight the main features of the ‘Inter-linking of Rivers’ project in India. What could be its probable advantages to Indian agriculture?

  • UPSC 2019
  • 20 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

The Inter-linking of Rivers (ILR) programme rests on the National Perspective Plan (NPP) of 1980, which proposes transferring water from "surplus" to "deficit" basins through a national grid of canals and storages. It is India's largest hydraulic proposal, and a sociologist must read it as social engineering quite as much as civil engineering.

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  • Main features
  • Probable advantages to Indian agriculture
  • The sociological costs the engineering brackets out
  • Conclusion

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