Two memorable and “visionary” political thrusts in the national infrastructure space have been former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s “bharat-jodo” National Highways Development Programme (NHDP) and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Civil Nuclear Programme. Many feel that the current lacklustre mood could well do with another visionary nation-building idea. River-linking is one such idea.

<p><table width='100%' border=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 18px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #0253B7;'><B>Vinayak Chatterjee:</B> Thinking river-linking</td></tr><tr><tr><td style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11px; '>The idea to interlink India

Vinayak Chatterjee: Thinking river-linking

The idea to interlink Indias rivers is visionary. It is time we re-examined it

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