Ken Betwa River Interlinking project Flashcards
Cost of the project at 2020-21 price level
Rs. 44, 605 crore
Centre would fund
39,317 crore with 36,290 crore as a grant and 3,027 as a loan
Centre marked KBLP as a national project in
- Later included in PM’S package for development of drought prone Bundelkhand region
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed for preparation of the Detailed Project Report between… In 2005
Min of Jal Shakti and UP (Tripartite agreement)
The first project of National Perspective Plan for Interlinking of rivers
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Aims to transfer water from
Ken in MP to Betwa in UP
Ken and Betwa are tributaries of which river
Yamuna
Purpose of the KBLP
To irrigate the drought prone Bundelkhand Region
UP and MP signed a tripartite agreement with the Centre in World Water Day (22nd March) to?
To finally implement this ambitious project
Ken Betwa Link Canal ..221. Km long with a … 2 km long tunnel
Special Purpose Vehicle
Ken Betwa Link Project Authority
Amount of water to be diverted is
is 1,020 million cubic metres
It has how many phases
Two
In the first phase the Daudhan Damn complex which would be 77m talk and 2 km wide and the canal…
230 km
Provide annual irrigation of
10.62 lakh ha
Generating … MW of hydropower
103 MW of Hydropower
… MW of Solar Power
27 MW of Solar Power
Environmental concerns
Will submerge 9000 ha area including the Panna Tiger Reserve in MP and affect the habitat of vultures and jackal
Cleared by apex wildlife regulator National Board for wildlife in
2016
Official Name of National River Linking Project
National Perspective Plan
In 1970s the idea of transferring surplus water from a river to water-deficit area was mooted by the then Union Irrigation Minister
Dr KL Rao
When did the min of irrigation prepare a National Perspective Plan for water resources development envisaging inter basic transfer in the country
August 1980
NPP comprises two components
Himalayan Rivers Development and Peninsular Rivers Development
Total river links
30 (16-Peninsular and 14- Himalayan Component)
River Linking idea revived under which government
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government
