Mahadayi River Issue and Mahanadi

Mahadayi River and Mahanadi River

• This Mahadayi river issue shows how the BJP is a party which does not care about the people.
• Now Mahadayi river is a river which is 79 kms long, 27 kms in Karnataka and  52 kms in Goa.
• It is known as Mahadayi in Karnataka and Mandovi in Goa.
• Same river flows into the Arabian Sea.
• Now if we compare the distance of the river in Goa it is 52 kms.
• Now Karnataka wants to divert some water to interior North Karnataka which for centuries is a water deficient part of the country perhaps stretching for hundreds of kms.
• What is population of Goa?
• It would be 2 or 3 million but if we think about North Karnataka it would be in tens of millions.
• Goa is on the windward side of the Western Ghats
• Goa receives maximum rainfall.
• But North Karnataka is on the Leeward side and monsoon clouds get blocked by the Western Ghats and there is very less rainfall.
• Now tell me does BJP not want to solve the problem of the people and farmers.
• Of what use is the river water when it flows to the Arabian Sea.
• While the BJP Govt is in center and Goa, there is Congress in Karnataka.
• Tell me is politics important or solving peoples problem?
• In same case if we look at the in Odisha and Chattisgarh dispute, BJP is diverting Mahanadi water to interiror Chhatisgarh.
• There is again BJP Govt in Chhatisgarh.
• There is a difference between issue in Odisha Chhatisgarh and issue in Karnataka Goa.
• It is documented that in Chhatisgarh BJP is diverting the river to industrial use and private rich industry. 
• Odisha farmers and common people suffer as the river water they always expect to flow now runs dry.
• The length of Mahanadi in Odisha is in hundreds of kms and not 52 kms like Mahadayi in Goa.
• There is more dependence of Mahanadi in Odisha as there is a history of erratic monsoon in Odisha. 
• Goa will always have the water and a 77 kms river will never run dry. 
• But Mahanadi stretches for hundreds of kms and goes through farming areas and towns and villages as well as forest areas and entire ecology will be affected. It also feeds a delta and it will be catastrophe.
• What I want to say that for the greater benefit Mahadayi river water should be diverted.
• But Mahanadi should not be diverted because Chattisgarh will consume all the water and nothing will be left for Odisha.
• Odisha needs the water for its poor people unlike Chhatisgarh which wants to use it for industry. 
• Similarly Karnataka needs it water for the poor and water deficient people in interior North Karnataka unlike Goa which has plenty of water anyways..
• In Odisha millions of people are dependent on Mahanadi river.
• In Goa they have other rivers as well and Goa will not be affected much as Goa is 3700 kms area which is less than hundreds of districts in the country like for example neighbouring Belgaum district is 13,000 sq kms plus.
• And they have abundant rain as the onset of Monsoon happens very fast on the windward side of the Western Ghats.