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Water policy dams locals

Water policy dams locals   The Prime Minister (pm) Atal Bihari Vajpayee's vision of water management does not filter into the National Water Policy, which he released on April 1, 2002. His speech was totally at variance with the policy he unveiled. Was it mere rhetoric or does he have no say in guiding the policy of the government he heads?

While the pm emphasised that water belongs to the community, the water policy gives government machinery total control over this resource. "The community is the rightful custodian of water,' Vajpayee emphasised. "But the policy declares water as a

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