The Hindu Business Line : Karnataka ryots oppose plan to interlink rivers

A SECTION of the farmers in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka has come out strongly against the Government's plan to interfere with the natural course of rivers.

As part of its plan to inter-link rivers across the State - ostensibly to facilitate better use of resources and improve the overall water management scenario - the Government intends to turn the Nethravathi eastwards and change the course of a few other westward-flowing rivers.

Farmers dependent on the Nethravathi have also begun to feel that the entire project would, in the name of providing water to other parts of the State, deprive them of the water of a river that has been flowing through this region for centuries and which has been the main source of sustenance for thousands of families.

Moreover, according to the Parisarasaktha Krishikara Vedike, in the absence of any specific information regarding the actual nature of the project, fear has set in across several villages about the possible submergence of agricultural land.

The Vedike is planning to conduct a protest rally in Belthangady on December 28.

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