Revitalization of Rivers in India Draft Policy - Isha Guru Jaggi Vasudev

Revitalization of Rivers In India
Draft Policy Recommendation
• The following table shows the total lengths of major rivers in India,
according to the basin. The total length of these rivers is more than 15,000 Km.
Most of the Indian rivers are forest-fed. When it rains, water percolates into
the soil, it saturates soil and later slowly leaches out to form rivulets, streams &
rivers. For river rejuvenation, our suggestion is to have plantation cover for at
least 1 km on either side of the rivers. For government lands, the plantation can
be forestry plants and on private lands it can be horticultural crops. In this way,
we can enhance the income of farmers and revive the rivers. This can be done in
a systematic way by the adoption of drip irrigation for these plants, which will
support in the establishment of dense plantations with almost a 50% saving of
irrigation water, which can be used to increase the irrigation area or can be made
available for other commercial activities.
Annexures
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