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  Smart India Hackathon: PM pitches for river inter-linking, says it can help address imbalance issues

  India | March 30, 2018 23:27 IST

  Responding to the question by a student during the 'smart India hackathon', Modi said while 17 per cent of the world population is in India, the country has only four per cent of water.

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  Know all about PM Modi's ambitious Rs 5.5 lakh crore river-linking project

  India | March 30, 2018 23:28 IST

  The idea behind interlinking of rivers is to deal with the problem of drought and floods afflicting different parts of the country, while decreasing farmers’ dependency on uncertain monsoon rains