Current Affairs Online Test -135
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, Tapi from Saputara that flows through Maharashtra and Surat in Gujarat, and Narmada originating in Madhya Pradesh and flowing through Maharashtra and Bharuch and Narmada districts in Gujarat.
The link mainly includes the construction of seven dams (Jheri, Mohankavchali, Paikhed, Chasmandva, Chikkar, Dabdar and Kelwan), three diversion weirs (Paikhed, Chasmandva, and Chikkar dams), two tunnels (5.0 kilometers and 0.5 kilometers length), the 395-kilometre long canal (205 kilometre in Par-Tapi portion including the length of feeder canals and 190 km in Tapi-Narmada portion), and six powerhouses.
Of these, the Jheri dam falls in Nashik, while the remaining dams are in Valsad and Dang districts of South Gujarat.
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An official of the Ukai dam explains how the excess water in the interlinked Par, Tapi and Narmada rivers which flow into the sea in the monsoon would be diverted to Saurashtra and Kutch for irrigation. “During the monsoon season, the water which is supplied to Saurashtra through the state government from Sardar Sarovar dam will be saved and used for other purposes. Presently the water of Sardar Sarovar is used in urban areas and for irrigation in Saurashtra”, says the dam official.
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Centre’s role
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Gujarat, Maharashtra and the central government on May 3, 2010, that 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.
The Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the project was prepared by the National Water Development Agency (NWDA) in 2015 and modified on the intervention of the Gujarat government, through letters the then chief minister wrote in 2016. The chief minister had suggested to include the command area of five projects proposed, namely: Ugta, Sidhumber, Khata Amba, Zankhari and Khuntali; irrigate tribal areas en route right side of link canal by lift; lift irrigate tribal areas of Dang and Valsad districts directly from the reservoirs; explore possibilities of irrigation in the tribal areas of Chhota Udepur and Panchmahal districts from Narmada Main Canal on substitution basis; provide drinking water for all villages of Dang and Navsari districts and villages of Kaprada and Dharampur talukas of Valsad district and provide for filling up all possible tanks in the area under the project’s cover.
The Gujarat government had, in December 2016, proposed providing a pipeline system instead of open canals to “avoid/minimise the land acquisition in tribal areas” as well as to reduce evaporation and seepage losses. A letter dated January 18, 2017, by the secretary, Gujarat government, to NWDA suggested revision of the DPR on these lines.
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