LINKING KEN AND BETWA RIVER            

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• Cabinet approves Ken-Betwa river linking project at cost of Rs 44,605 cr.

About

• The Ken-Betwa link project (KBLP) is the first river interlinking project, among the 16 similar projects planned under the Peninsular Rivers Development of the NPP.
• It will connect the tributaries of the Yamuna River, namely the Ken river in the Panna district of Madhya Pradesh and the Betwa river in Uttar Pradesh.
• Under the Ken-Betwa link project, water will be transferred from Ken to Betwa river through the construction of Daudhan Dam and a canal linking the two rivers.

Ken

• The Ken River is one of the major rivers in the Bundelkhand region of central India and flows through the states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. It is a tributary of the Yamuna.
• The Ken River originates on the north-west slopes of Barner Range in UP.
• The Ken valley separates the Rewa Plateau from the Satna Plateau.

Betwa

• A tributary of the Yamuna it rises in the Vindhya Range (Raisen) just north of Hoshangabad in Madhya Pradesh and flows northeast through Madhya Pradesh and Orchha to Uttar Pradesh.
• Nearly half of its course, which is not navigable, runs over the Malwa Plateau.
• The confluence of the Betwa and the Yamuna rivers is in Hamirpur district in Uttar Pradesh, in the vicinity of Orchha.

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