India has been facing a number of disasters since the last two decades, such as floods in monsoon, droughts in dry weather and increasing number of deaths due to proliferating diseases. However, water pollution has also been an emerging threat to the country because of rapidly growing industrialization in the country. Furthermore, availability of low cost labor and increasing population have also caused water scarcity in the country that has been demanding to initiate the projects to tackle these escalating threats for the country. The irrigation system in the country has been outdated; however, some farmers had started getting water from wells.
River Linking Project, initiated by Dinesh Shindey, reflects a positive step from the authority, but yet Shindey has not gained the approval from the Ministry although he has asked the Prime Minister to bend the direction towards the project so that the growing threat could be mitigated for the country. Shindey has demanded a team to analyze each PESTL factor for the project.
This massive project would ultimately generate ways of proper utilization of water in the country through the construction of 34 dams to store water, 94 tunnels and wide spread canals of 12,500 kilometers. Many opponents have voted against this project because they assume that such a massive project could not be converted into practical in a country where corruption is also on the peak.
Shindey’s team has been formulating a report through the consensus with the former Secretary of the Ministry of Water Resources of India, S.Kannan, which would recommend the ways to respond to these threats. S.Kannan mentioned in his opinion that the basis of the solution laid in an approach to decentralize the regional and local project. In this case, students have to examine the most appropriate criteria of decision by keeping the focus on multiple stakeholders. Decision tree analysis and probabilities could be assigned in the case. The scenario reflecting this case demonstrates the intensity of care required for the proper utilization of natural resources in a phase where demands of those resources are growing rapidly.
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