Linking two rivers threatens to displace tigers | Janaki Lenin

A project to connect two rivers will drown a large part of Panna national park in central India. Not only people, tigers will also be displaced

Panna national park, home to 24 tigers, will be destroyed if the proposed linking of the rivers Ken and Betwa goes ahead, fear wildlife activists. Work was scheduled to start in December 2015. But the project isn't likely to receive environmental clearances by then.

Linking the rivers Ken and Betwa is the first in a mammoth engineering scheme. The Ministry of Water Resources plans to link about 37 rivers across the country in the coming decades. Diverting waters from one river to the other is being promoted as a solution to poverty and increasing agricultural productivity.