Opinion | What If Kosi & Mechi Flood At Once? Many A Query As Rs 6,300Cr Bihar Link Canal Gets Budget Nod 

The objectives of the link canal include solving the flood problem caused by Kosi. (File image of a 2020 NDRF rescue and relief operation during floods in Bihar, representational image)

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A long-awaited project for irrigation and flood control, the Kosi-Mechi River Link canal has suddenly come into the limelight because, after a wait lasting years, its construction has been announced in this year’s Union Budget.  The central government started seriously considering this river-linking scheme in 2004. The Bihar government, in 2006, requested the Centre to consider an intra-state link for the rivers. It is said that the construction of this link canal will lead to the