{"id":4449,"date":"2023-01-04T10:04:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T04:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4449"},"modified":"2025-03-27T00:25:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:55:48","slug":"what-is-the-kalasa-banduri-nala-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-kalasa-banduri-nala-project\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Kalasa-Banduri Nala Project?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Kalasa Banduri Nala Project:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Kalasa Banduri Nala project aims to divert water from Mahadayi to satisfy the drinking water needs of Belagavi, Dharwad, Bagalkot and Gadag districts.<\/li>\n<li>Though the project was first proposed in the early 1980s, it has remained on paper owing to a dispute between Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra.<\/li>\n<li>As per plans, barrages are to be built against Kalasa and Banduri streams \u2014 tributaries of Mahadayi \u2014 and water diverted towards Karnataka\u2019s parched districts.<\/li>\n<li>Mahadayi originates inside the Bhimgad Wildlife Sanctuary in the Belagavi district of Karnataka and flows into the Arabian Sea in Goa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What did the Tribunal say?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A Tribunal was set up by the UPA government in November 2010.<\/li>\n<li>The Tribunal in 2018 awarded 13.42 TMC water from Mahadayi river basin to Karnataka, 1.33 TMC to Maharashtra and 24 TMC to Goa.<\/li>\n<li>In Karnataka\u2019s share, 5.5 TMC was to meet drinking water needs and 8.02 TMC was for hydro-electricity generation.<\/li>\n<li>Of the 5.5 TMC, 3.8 TMC was to be diverted to Malaprabha basin through Kalasa and Banduri Nalas (canals).<\/li>\n<li>This was notified by the Central government in February 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) Under which act inter-state water Tribunals are formed?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The inter-state water dispute act 1956 empowers the central government to set up an ad hoc tribunal for the adjudication of a dispute between the two or more states in relation to the water of an inter-state river.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/karnataka-goa-mahadayi-water-sharing-row-explained-8358827\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Mahadayi water sharing row between Goa, Karnataka: What is the issue, why it has flared up<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalasa Banduri Nala project aims to divert water from Mahadayi to Belagavi, Dharwad, Bagalkot and Gadag districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4449","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\/4449","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=4449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}