Linking of Narmada & Kshipra

Q: Hasn't the merging of the 2 rivers provided a steady water supply for Indore? Why are some residents of Ujjain road against this project?

Prateek Mishra, Indore

11th July 2014

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This project is being done in three stages. The plan after completion is that about 3000 villages, some 70 towns of the Malwa region will all get the water. One more thing is that over 16 lakh acres of land will be getting water for irrigation.

Manohar Scindia, Indore

7th March 2015

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Tell you what. This is not just about the mela or something. THere are some electricity and water problems too will be solve with this. Basically, four pumping stations of some 1000 kilo watts in capacity have been used while the others used are about 9000 kilo watts in power.

Deeptika Choksey, Indore

6th March 2015

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This is some great news. Now with this river linking project completed successfully the Kshipra river will be alive to facilitate the Simhastha Mela happening in here aftar a long hiatus of 12 years and as some one said could allow pilgrims to take a dip here.

Suresh Jadav, Indore

5th March 2015

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Narmada river water has been lifted to a height of over 350 metres using several electricity driven pumps, and later it has been diverted to the origin of the Kshipra river which is around 50 kilometres away from the Narmada river.

Tanmay Kumar, Indore

5th March 2015

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Great news, this, I suppose. The Kshipra river was almost dry just about a year ago and now with this move the river has plenty of water for the pilgrims to take a holy dip in during the Simhastha Kumbha Mela of 2016.

Prateek Mishra, Indore

4th March 2015

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Hello. To all those that have been talking against this happening. There is some bad news. The Kshipra river has been revived with the help of the Narmada river sources and hurting the sentiments of a godmen were not the concerns as there was a lot more at stake here.

Nitish Bajpai, Indore

4th March 2015

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Hi there, So what exactly has been done to make this happen? As in how did they make it happen?

Ashish Sharma, Mumbai

4th March 2015

The point of confluence of the 2 rivers is called Sangham Sthal, and I feel sorry for you if you actually did go swimming there. As of today, the 432 crore project has been forgotten by the state government and now it is a place of waste dumping and sewage. The Ujjaini's who tried swimming there complained of an itchy back right after. They say that the quality of water is pathetic and that even though the linking was done so that there would be steady water supply, it just hasn't happened. Nobody is supervising this and all the state government has to say about it is they spend 8 lakh per day for power supply. Or so they say....

Naveen Jaitley, Indore

12th July 2014

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Let's not get carried away and completely ignore the beliefs of these sadhus. But you're precisely right nonetheless! While some are happy at the fact that these 2 rivers had merged, some hated the thought. Many protested against this because they wanted unhindered flow of Kshipra water . Others thought that Narmada had the purest quality water and that it should not be polluted by another river. It was quite interesting to watch these protests and comment on them but that's besides the point. Oh by the way, has anyone taken a dip in this water recently? If not, please please don''t. It is horribly polluted now. Though I'm not surprised .

Rahat Amin, Indore

12th July 2014

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I think I will go into details! :) This project of merging the 2 rivers was done with a view to pump some water back into the drought ridden Kshipra river. The plan was to converge the 2 rivers at the source of Narmada itself in Ujjaini which is 19 km away from here. And turns out that the project was a huge success! There were water resources that was enough for crores of devotees who came to Ujjain for the month long 2016 Kumbh Mela! Isn't that great? Well apparently not and who is upset about this? Well the seers in Ujjain ofcourse! Why? Because it goes against the holiness of the individual identity of the rivers of course! According to these seers, they would rather bathe in a dry Kshipra that is on the verge of death than allow the infusion of pollutants of another river. Blasphemy!

Rashika Mahajan, Indore

12th July 2014

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Ever heard of the age old Malwa saying, 'pag pag roti, dag dag neer?' Translated in English it means bread and butter at every step. This was what the entire project was working towards. By making the Kshipra river merge with Narmada, the enlarged water body would be more productive for fulfilling basic water requirements in Indore as well as hydroelectricity. Indians can get quite sentimental about these things and that's when the problem begins :P I won't go into details but this 420 crore project didn't do all that much to help the problem of scarcity of water now did it.

Akshay Sethi, Indore

11th July 2014

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