River-Linking: Why Play With Nature, Asks Jairam Ramesh

Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh pointed to the amount of land to be involved and the people displaced if one were to link the Brahmaputra River with a peninsular one, for example.

“...then, who knows, why play with nature?" he said in Bangalore.

“If we start linking rivers, how do we know how these rivers are going to behave? What about changing course of rivers? What about climate change that's going to happen? " Read the full report here.

Source: The Hindu, Bangalore.