Nationalisation of Rivers
The major benefits of Nationalisation are: -
1. Avoid Water scarcity and Flooding.
2. Save and store the rain water through adding dams and irrigation networks for drinking and irrigation purposes during the summer.
3. Higher agricultural production.
4. Internal waterways as another means of transport 5. Electric power supply can be augmented by building the hydro-power plants.
6. Developing the industrial estates alongside the linked rivers will push up the economic growth.
Integration can be done by enactment of a law with provisions for appointment of a National Rivers Commission with statutory powers for planning, implementation, administration and regulation of the rivers and other structures like dams, hydro-power plants, etc. constructed on the upstream and downstream.
(Source: Write up by Shri Mohan Thulasingam) more