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Ken-Betwa project: In 1st phase, 1,160 of 7,193 affected families yet to accept rehabilitation plan
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....en-Betwa project: In 1st phase, 1,160 of 7,193 affected families yet to accept rehabilitation plan<BR>PTI News<BR>Dated:- 30-4-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Bhopal, Apr 30 (PTI) In the first phase of the ambitious Ken-Betwa river linking project, 1,160 of the 7,193 affected families in Madhya Pradesh have not chosen the rehabilitation options offered by the government. The remaining 6,033 families of the projec....
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....ted affected people in 22 villages in the state’s Panna and Chhatarpur districts have accepted the compensation proposals, the authorities have said in response to an RTI application filed by PTI. However, no affected family has been rehabilitated yet. A senior official associated with the project said the process is going on at a “fast pace” and expressed confidence that it would be compl....
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....eted within a year. Talks are going on with those affected families who have rejected the government’s rehabilitation package, said the official. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation stone of the Ken-Betwa river link project, estimated to cost about Rs 45,000 crore, in December 2024. Under the project, the government plans to connect the Ken and Betwa rivers, originating from ....
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....Madhya Pradesh. Surplus water from Ken will be transferred to Betwa to improve water availability in the Bundelkhand region. The link canal will have a length of 221 km, including a 2 km tunnel. As part of the project, work is underway on the 77-metre-high Daudhan dam on the Ken river in Chhatarpur district. Two power projects have also been proposed as part of the project. Under the displacemen....
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....t policy, "a provision has been made to give Rs 12.5 lakh per adult". If a person wants to opt for a plot, then Rs 5 lakh will be deducted from the Rs 12.5 lakh, and the remaining Rs 7.5 lakh will be given in cash. In response to PTI’s application under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, Madhya Pradesh's Water Resources Department said that families from 22 villages in Panna and Chhatarpur dis....
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....tricts have been affected by the river linking project. It said, “Out of the 7,193 families affected by the project, 5,968 families have opted for the special package in Panna and Chhatarpur, while 65 have opted for R&R Colony (Rehabilitation and Resettlement Colony).” “Survey and consent work is going on for the remaining project-affected families,” it added. Some locals and farmers ha....
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....ve been opposing the project, alleging that they are not getting “adequate” compensation. Recently, they marched 30 km from Satai village to the Chhatarpur district collectorate and handed over a memorandum to Collector Parth Jaiswal for “proper” compensation. Baleshwar Thakur, Ken Betwa Link Project Authority Member Secretary and National Water Development Agency Director General, told P....
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....TI that no affected family has been rehabilitated yet. “Everything is happening properly. The rehabilitation work is on a fast track. It will be completed within a year,” he said. Thakur said land has been identified for the 65 families who have opted for the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Colony, and the state government is also cooperating in this. When asked about the protest by the loc....
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....als, Thakur said, “There are some local leaders... People are getting Rs 12-13 lakh (compensation), but there are some who are demanding Rs 17-18 lakh.” Thakur, who manages various aspects of this ambitious river interlinking project, said, “Everything is being taken care of.” In the last budget session of Parliament, a report by the Standing Committee on Water Resources had raised conce....
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....rns over the slow progress of rehabilitation and resettlement under various projects undertaken by the ministry. In its report, the committee said in the context of land acquisition for the Daudhan dam of this project that a budgetary allocation of Rs 4,000 crore has been made in 2024-25 for rehabilitation and resettlement activities. PTI BNS MAS NR<BR> News - Press release - PIB....