As for the promise of drinking water, this is an utter hoax. Altogether, a picture of shameful thuggery and incompetence. The planned irrigation delta will not permit cane farming, which is discouraged. The 14 existing sugar factories are outside the SSP command. However, she predicts waterlogging and salinity and scoffs at the measures taken to monitor and prevent this happening.
Conjunctive use is derided as foolish and expensive.
Splendid satire, were it not so mendacious. We have it on Arundhati s supreme authority that only half the SSP command can be irrigated for lack of water. And that half, she suspects, will not be the tail-end in distant Saurashtra and Kutch. No afterthought that. Arundhati laughs at the inclusion of 236 uninhabited villages.