{"id":12442,"date":"2023-06-24T02:28:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T20:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12442"},"modified":"2025-04-01T19:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:45:03","slug":"kalasa-banduri-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kalasa-banduri-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalasa-Banduri Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About Kalasa-Banduri Project:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The project involves the <strong>construction of dams and a canal system<\/strong> to <strong>divert water from the Mahadayi River<\/strong>, located in Goa, <strong>to the Malaprabha River<\/strong> (a tributary of Krishna river) basin in Karnataka.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>main goal<\/strong> of the project is to meet the <strong>drinking water needs<\/strong> of the districts of <strong>Belagavi, Dharwad, Bagalkot, and Gadag in Karnataka.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Though the project was <strong>first proposed in the early 1980s<\/strong>, it has remained on paper owing to a <strong>dispute between Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>As per plans, <strong>barrages are to be built against Kalasa and Banduri streams<\/strong> \u2014 tributaries of Mahadayi \u2014 and water <strong>diverted towards Karnataka\u2019s parched districts<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about Mahadayi river:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Origin<\/strong>: Mahadayi river <strong>rises in the Western Ghats<\/strong>, <strong>from the Bhimgad Wildlife Sanctuary<\/strong> in Khanapur taluk of <strong>Karnataka\u2019s Belagavi district.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The river travels <strong>35 km in Karnataka; 82 km in Goa<\/strong> before <strong>joining the Arabian Sea<\/strong> at Panji (North-Goa).<\/li>\n<li>Also <strong>called Mandovi in Goa<\/strong>, Mahadayi is a <strong>rain-fed river<\/strong> that is <strong>shared between Karnataka and Goa<\/strong> for their water needs.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary<\/strong> is located on the island of Chorao in the Mandovi river.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major Tributaries: Kalasa Nala, Banduri Nala, Surla Nala, <\/strong>Haltar Nala, Poti Nala, Mahadayi Nala, Pansheer Nala, Bail Nala, Andher Nala.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL)?<\/h3>\n<p>NBWL is a \u201cstatutory board\u201d constituted under the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 .The act mandates that without the approval\/recommendation of the NBWL, construction of tourist lodges, alteration of the boundaries of PAs, destruction or diversion of wildlife habitat and de-notification of Tiger Reserves, cannot be done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectstoday.com\/News\/Karnataka-govt-awaits-clearance-for-forest-land--for-Kalasa-Banduri-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Karnataka govt awaits clearance for forest land for Kalasa-Banduri project<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalasa-Banduri Project involves the construction of dams and a canal system to divert water from the Mahadayi River to the Malaprabha River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}