Why are there protests over the Ken-Betwa project?
They also picked up nearly 150 protestors, most of them from neighbouring Panna district, in buses and dropped them off at their villages. What is the Ken-Betwa river linking project?The Ken-Betwa River Linking Project is the first of 30 proposed river-linking projects under the National Perspective Plan (NPP). Formulated in 1980 by the then Union Ministry of Irrigation and the Central Water Commission, the NPP aims to transfer water from rivers with a perceived surplus to those facing water deficits.
- ▪They also picked up nearly 150 protestors, most of them from neighbouring Panna district, in buses and dropped them off at their villages.
- ▪What is the Ken-Betwa river linking project?The Ken-Betwa River Linking Project is the first of 30 proposed river-linking projects under the National Perspective Plan (NPP).
- ▪Formulated in 1980 by the then Union Ministry of Irrigation and the Central Water Commission, the NPP aims to transfer water from rivers with a perceived surplus to those facing water deficits.
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The story so far: Madhya Pradesh police personnel went to the banks of the Barana river stream in Kupi village of Chhatarpur district on July 19 and cleared a protest site where hundreds of villagers, mostly tribal people, had been demonstrating for two weeks against the Union government’s ₹44,000 crore Ken-Betwa Link Project, India’s first river-linking project, and two irrigation projects of the State government.The police took local activist Amit Bhatnagar, founder of the Jai Kisan Sangathan, who had been on an indefinite hunger strike for 14 days, and admitted him to a government hospital. They also picked up nearly 150 protestors, most of them from neighbouring Panna district, in buses and dropped them off at their villages.
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