Water experts warn that India’s major rivers, including Ganga, Yamuna, Narmada, Krishna, Godavari and Chambal, could soon dry up due to blatant sand and gravel mining being spearheaded by the mining mafia.

So blatant are their activities that the water experts warn entire river systems are being destroyed by their illegal activities.Sand is vital for the health of the river system because it acts like a sponge helping to recharge the water table. Its progressive depletion results in plunging water tables and increased velocity of river flow.

Gandhinagar: With summer setting in, the Narendra Modi government does not want to take any chances with rural folk in an election year. In a massive drive to make full use of Narmada waters across Gujarat for drinking purposes, complete plans have been worked out to ensure that not only do they reach in all parts of Gujarat, but also to as many as individual households as possible. Funds have been made available, and administrative sanction obtained, to begin tens of big and small projects.

The ruling BJP has taken to the streets accusing a Congress MP of insulting the Narmada.

ZAFAR ALAM KHAN notes that first blood was spilled in Aishbagh police station area where a man was murdered following a dispute over filling of containers.

The Shri Maheshwar Hydel Power Corporation Limited (SMHPCL) Project has strongly refuted the false and misleading claims made by the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) that 90 houses in six villages got

Actual irrigation has been done in 87,000 hectare area from Narmada Valley projects till December 2011 during the current fiscal.

In the remote Kailashnagar village (Jalore district), on the border of Rajasthan and Gujarat, lives Parbhu Ram, a farmer who has never been to either Punjab or Haryana.

Vibha Sharma writes from Sanchor in Rajasthan
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