Forest Rights Adivasis are being made the scapegoat for the industrial-scale felling of trees along Betwa river The dusty, drought-prone region was once covered with dense jungle where leopards ...

Betwa River News Budget 2022: What Are Ken-Betwa And Five River Linking Projects And What is Its Significance | Explained India.com News Desk February 2, 2022 11:57 PM IST ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the Ken- Betwa River Linking National Project in Madhya Pradesh on the occasion of the 100th birth anniversary of former PM Atal Bihari ...

Betwa river bifurcates at this point forming a 5 km long island. Today the changing course of the river has established a land link to the hitherto water-locked island in earlier times.

The success of Ken-Betwa link project is expected to show way for similar river interlinking projects and ensure that scarcity of water does not become an inhibitor for development in the country.

The Ken-Betwa river-linking project, if realised, will wipe out a portion of the Panna Tiger Reserve with its flora and fauna. The government, however, is adamant about its plan.

Thousands of villagers in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh are protesting against a multi-million-dollar river-linking project which, they say, will rob them of their homes and livelihoods.

They could drop further once water from the Ken is diverted to the Betwa river, about 250 km away, as part of an ambitious and controversial river-linking project being built by the Union government.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagging off work on the Ken-Betwa river interlinking project signalled that the national government is unbothered by the wide-ranging opposition to it. At a budgeted ...

Jhansi/ Five students, including two girls, met a watery grave near Paricha Dam on Betwa river, 35 km from the Jhansi district headquarters, on Thursd ...

"I declare 550 km long Betwa river as a waterway on behalf of my department. I'm not one of those who shows people dreams, I also fulfill those dreams," Gadkari said while addressing the gathering ...

PM Modi in Madhya Pradesh: With an estimated cost of Rs 44,605 crore, the Ken-Betwa river project involves building a 77-meter-high, 2.13-kilometer-long Daudhan Dam on the Ken River within the ...