By allab Bhattacharya and Pinaki Roy
The Indian Supreme Court yesterday ordered the government to implement an ambitious project to link the major rivers of the region in a “time-bound manner”.
The court also appointed a high-powered committee to plan and put into action the Rs 5,00,000 crore scheme.
The river-linking project was first devised in 1980 and has been under discussion ever since, reports BBC.
Bangladesh has been opposing the plan since 2002 as the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee formed a taskforce to get the project going against the backdrop of the acute drought that year.
At the least Bangladesh expected India to understand her concerns because history should remind India that once she was a victim of such oppression by the British rulers.
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