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Order of The
Supreme Court of India
W.P(C)No. 512 OF 2002
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ITEM No.62 Court No. 7 SECTION PIL
A/N MATTER
S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A
RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
Writ Petition(Civil) No.512/2002
"IN RE : NETWORKING OF RIVERS"
( With Appln(s). for intervention & Intervention/
Impleadment )
(For further Orders)
With
W.P(C)No.668/2002 (For prel.hearing)
[With appln.for directions]
Date : 05/05/2003 These Petitions were called on
for hearing today.
CORAM :
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE Y.K. SABHARWAL
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE H.K. SEMA
Mr.Ranjit Kumar,Sr.Adv.(AC)
Mr.Nikhil Nayyar,Adv.(AC)
For Petitioner (s) Mr.Sudarsh Menon,Adv.
For Respondent (s)
Mr. Sanjay R. Hegde,Adv.
Mrs.Revathy Raghavan,Adv.
For UOI Mr.Soli Sorabjee,AG
M/s Syed Naqvi,K.Venugopal,
Shreekant N. Terdal,Advs.
For J&K Mr.Altaf H.Naik,AAG
Mr.Anis Suhrawardy,Adv.
For U.P. M/s Alka Agrawal,Ajay K.Agrawal,Advs.
For Sikkim M/s A.Mariarputham,Aruna Mathur,Advs.
For Haryana M/s Arvind Nayar,Kavita Wadia,Advs.
For Jharkhand M/s Rajesh Pathak,Ashok Mathur,Advs.
Mr. Gopal Singh,Adv.
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For Himachal Pradesh Mr.JS Attri,AAG
Mr. Naresh K. Sharma,Adv.
For Nagaland Mrs V.D. Khanna,Adv.
Mr.SK Shandilya,Adv.
For Maharashtra M/s SS Shinde,Mukesh K.Giri,Advs.
For NCT of Delhi M/s DN Goburdhun,Pinky Anand,
Geeta Luthra,Advs.
Mr. Ashok K. Mahajan,Adv.
Mr. K.R. Sasiprabhu,Adv.
For Assam M/s Krishna Sarma,Asha G.Nair,
VK Sidatharan,Advs.for
M/s Corporate Law Group
For Rajasthan M/s Manish Singhvi,Ashok K.Mahajan,Advs.
For impleadment of Mr.Shanti Bhushan,Sr.Adv.
Cmdr.Sureshwar D.Sinha M/s Prashant Bhushan,Sanjay K.Pathak,
Narendra Verma,Vishal Gupta,
Anil K.Mittal,Advs.
For NCRP Board Mrs Sheil Mohini Sethi,Adv.
For Gujarat & Mizoram Ms. Hemantika Wahi,Adv.
Ms.Sadhna Sandhu,Adv.
For West Bengal M/s Tara Chandra Sharma,Neelam Sharma,Advs.
For Goa Ms. A.Subhashini,Adv.
M/s Manik Karanjawala,Hrishikesh Baruah,Advs.
For Meghalaya Mr.Ranjan Mukherjee,Adv.
For Punjab M/s RS Suri,Jagjit Singh Chhabra,Advs.
For Bihar M/s BB Singh,Kumar Rajesh Singh,Advs.
For M.P. Mr.BS Banthia,Adv.
For Tamil Nadu M/s G.Umapathy,PN Ramalingam,Advs.
UPON hearing counsel the Court made the following
O R D E R
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Pursuant to order dated 20th Janury, 2003, an
affidavit dated 5th May, 2003 has been filed by Mr.BP
Pandey, Deputy Commissioner, Ministry of Water Resources,
Government of India, annexing thereto the resolution
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dated 13.12.2002 constituting a Task Force, time table
for interlinking of rivers, other resolutions nominating
part time and full time members of the Task Force and few
other documents. It seems that in last about four months
three meetings of Task Force have been held on 6th
January, 2003, 27th March, 2003 and 28th April, 2003. In
the last meeting the first Action Plan as per Government
Resolution was considered and adopted. Now as per Action
Plan-I the schedule for impelementation is 10 years from
the start. It stipulates that the work on the links can
be started from 2007. It is envisaged to be completed by
say end of 2016. Further it envisages that the group of
Task Force of interlinking rivers will examine the two
schedules and is expected to arrive at a reasonable and
predicable implementation schedule in due course.
According to Action Plan -I the said Task Force has laid
emphasis on demonstrative value of starting work on a
link or two, as soon as possible. The process of
preparation of Detailed Project Report for an inter basin
link need to cover also, Detailed Environmental Impact
Assessment, Environmental Management Plan and R&R Plan
for project affection persons. We find no substance in
the apprehension that the Task Force will not implement
the law. We have also no doubt that in case the other
experts in the field provide necessary inputs to the Task
Force, it will give it due consideration the same
deserves. For the present, we would direct posting of
the matter after six months.
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[Naresh Kumar]
[ VP Tyagi ]
Court Master
Court Master
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