The Government of West Bengal did not draft welcomes the networking of rivers in India and creation of a national water grid. Nandagopal Bhattarcharjee, Minister of State for Water and Development, the question of whether the investment of Rs5, 60000 crore in the project is feasible for a developing country like India. He made the comment while we talk at a seminar on “Networking of rivers in India: Bane or Boon?” held recently in Kolkata. The seminar was organized by the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management and the Centre for Environment and Development. Bhattarcharjee expected that the project on the loss of current and rising deposit silt in the Bhagirathi-Ganga-River Hooghly.

It could be the loss of flow in other rivers as well. In addition, the design of programs Kolkata and Haldia is perhaps shrink, activities at the port. The project could displace nearly 4.5 lakh man and underground 7.90000 hectares of forest, according to KK Bandyopadhyay, visiting professor of Calcutta and Jadavpur universities.

The seminar noted that truckers interbasin diversion of water resources could lead to what unforeseen effects on the environment. It was stressed, depletion of the layer of snow because of global warming.