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Haryana set to flood water into mythical Saraswati river’s route
July 22, 2016 | By Sikh Siyasat Bureau
Chandigarh: As per certain media reports, the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) led Haryana government is set to make the mythical river Saraswati flow by the end of July 2016. According to the Indian Express, the preparations underway to release water into what is believed to be the route of the lost Saraswati river.
“As per a proposal discussed by the Saraswati Heritage Development Board (SHDB), water from Uncha Chandana village would be discharged on July 30 through the Dadupur feeder into the route, where cleaning work is currently going on”, reads a report by the Indian Express (IE).
As per reports, the route covers Yamunanagar, Kurukshetra and Kaithal districts.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has said that the project to unearth the Saraswati river was a mission “to keep alive the soul of a community”, even if it meant creating a symbolic or artificial water body.
Water was found while digging along the dry river bed at Yamunanagar (2016)
The SHDB believes the monsoon should keep the river flowing for now. In the long run, the plan is to construct a dam at Adi Badri, which is considered to be the origin of the mythical river.
SHDB deputy chairman Prashant Bhardwaj said, “We are working on a plan to release water into Saraswati river through the Dadupur feeder. The modalities are being worked out. It is a fact that Saraswati flowed up to Rajasthan. Even ISRO has acknowledged it.”
He said 69 institutes are involved in the project to revive the river, and that talks are on to make a consortium with the Indian Institute of Technology. Six borewells will be made in Yamunanagar and two at Adi Badri and Mugalwali, he said.
Apart from catering to “religious tourists”, the proposal involves developing a recreational water park, a botanical garden and a zoo at Adi Badri.
The Centre has set up a panel under former Kumaon University vice-chancellor Prof K S Valdiya to verify Haryana’s claims of discovery of the river.
In 2002, too, the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government had constituted a panel to find the river. But after the UPA government came to power two years later, the project was scrapped.
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