River Interlinking Plan

The national river interlinking p1an has been offered as 11 miracle solution to water scarcity, primarily with the following claims:

• First, interlinking would lead to a permanent drought proofing of the country by raising the irrigation potential to equal the current net sown area of about 150 million hectares.
• Second, it would mitigate the annual floods in Ganga and Brahamputra
• Third, it would add 34,000 MW of hydropower to the national pool.

Here are the two maps of the plans: