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Patna,(BiharTimes): Notwithstanding strong reservation from some experts Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday directed officers and engineers in the state government to take steps for inter-linking of rivers in the state. |
The chief minister told engineers and officials at a high-level meeting of the state Water Resources Department to take steps in this regard as the state government would try to make available the funds required for the ambitious project. According to him it would help mitigate the havoc caused by droughts and floods almost every year.
He said that the project would help the state utilise the vast water resources. Bihar would have to utilise all its resources to the optimum level for attaining the status of a developed state by the year 2015.
It needs to be recalled that when the then Vajpayee government tried to take up the project at the national level it was stiffly opposed by some experts, who warned that it would cause ecological disbalance.
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