As per the Supreme Court directions a Special Committee for Inter linking of Rivers has been constituted by the Union Ministry of Water Resources, said the Union Department Minister Harish Rawat in the Rajya Sabha recently.    

The conclusions/recommendations given by National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) in its report mention various benefits of Interlinking of river programme such as additional benefits of irrigation and power, increase in growth rate of agriculture, growth of direct & indirect employment, improvement in the quality of life of people in rural areas and mitigation of floods and drought etc.    

The study has been uploaded on web site of National Water Development Agency i.e. www.nwda.gov.in. The NCAER report has mentioned about the various benefits of the Interlinking Projects as a whole and does not indicate its benefits State-wise. No comment has been received from any State Government. At present, no interlinking project under National Perspective Plan (NPP) is under implementation.