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Ken Betwa river link project
Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Sushri Uma Bharti has announced that last hurdle for Ken Betwa river link project is over. She said wild life board has cleared the project and after deciding its funding pattern the formal construction work will start.
Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Sushri Uma Bharti has announced that last hurdle for Ken Betwa river link project is over. She said wild life board has cleared the project and after deciding its funding pattern the formal construction work will start.
The Rs 9,393 crore project was given the approval at the meeting held on 23 August, chaired by Union environment minister Anil Madhav Dave. The interlinking of the Ken and Betwa rivers in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh is aimed at providing water to Bundelkhand, an area in Uttar Pradesh fighting continuous drought. The Ken-Betwa link project envisages diversion of surplus waters of Ken basin to water deficit Betwa basin.
The quantity of water proposed to be diverted from Ken basin, after considering in basin demands and downstream commitments earmarked for providing irrigation in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, is 1020 Mm3 . The command envisaged in the earlier proposed Ken Multipurpose Project (KMPP) by Madhya Pradesh State Government is also to be irrigated from this project.
Apart from drinking water facility and enroute irrigation of 47000 ha in Chhatarpur and Tikamgarh districts of Madhya Pradesh and Hamirpur and Jhansi districts of Uttar Pradesh, provision for downstream commitments of 1375 Mm3 for MP and 850 Mm3 of water for UP has also been kept. The 75% dependable yield of Ken upto Daudhan site has been assessed as 6188 Mm3 .
The net water availability at dam site after accounting all the upstream requirements is obtained as 3291 Mm3. The downstream commitments from Ken at Daudhan are 2225 Mm3. Out of this , 850 Mm3 is provided to Uttar Pradesh and 1375 Mm3 to Madhya Pradesh as per Interstate agreement of 1981 on river Ken. This 1375 Mm3 will be utilised to irrigate the entire command of KMPP.
The Betwa command comprises four projects namely Barari, Neemkheda, Richhan and Kesari in the upper reaches of the Betwa basin. The Benefit-Cost ratio for the Ken-Betwa link project as a whole has been computed based on the corresponding annual costs and annual benefits from this project, which comes to 1.87. The internal rate of return of the project works out to 13.00%.
