In a world which has become increasingly hungry for natural resources with consumer driven life styles & exploitative technology, river basins are merely seen as a stock & puddle of large dams to tap & exploit water capital have been tried since Bhakra Nagal, which is more than exposed now.
Not less than RS 70,000 crore has been spent on large & medium dams before 1990. In spite of 4,600 large Dams have been built across the country, not more than 6-15% of agricultural land in each state is irrigated by these projects. Neither the drinking water crisis nor the flood problem has been resolved. Moreover, almost RS1 lakh crore, officially spent during 1991-2004, has not added an acre of net irrigated area through surface channels.
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