Srinagar: Identifying the huge potential in hydroelectric power generation, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said the State Hydel Policy will be revised to attract investment in the power sector. He said this while chairing a high-level meeting to discuss the issues related to the Independent Power Producers (IPP), here today.

Jalandhar Reacting to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi advocating linking of rivers at a recent NDA rally, the SAD today said it has always opposed such a proposal and would register its protest at an

SOLUTION: Venkaiah Naidu, senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, campaigning for the party

FORMER Union Minister of State for Railways and PMK

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After being caught in bureaucratic red tape and disputes between States for nearly 30 years, the ambitious River Inter-Linking Project may soon become a reality with a link between Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh ready for launch in the next three years.

In the next three years, the Ken-Betwa river link between the two States may become the first river inter-linking project of the country.

One of the major development projects launched by Mrs. Indira Gandhi on returning to power in early 1980 was the epoch-making Inter-linking of Rivers (ILR) Project in August that year, finalized after the then Ministry of Irrigation and Power proposed the National Perspective of Water Resources Development.

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CHENNAI: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi will lay the foundation stone on February 9 for the Rs.369-crore project to interlink the Tamirabarani river with the Karumeniyar and Nambiar, Governor Surjit Singh Barnala told the Assembly on Wednesday. The project envisaged diversion of surplus water of the Tamirabarani to dry areas in Tuticorin and Tirunelveli districts.