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Background
Overview
Important for understanding large-scale infrastructure projects, their multi-faceted impacts (environmental, social, economic), challenges in sustainable development, and inter-state cooperation/conflict over resources.
The Interlinking of Rivers Project (ILR) is a large-scale engineering project in India aimed at connecting various rivers through a network of canals to transfer surplus water from water-rich basins to water-deficit basins, primarily for irrigation and drought mitigation.