Cabinet nod for committee on rivers inter-linking

New Delhi, Nov 15: The Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved the status-cum-progress report and setting up a 'Special Committee for Inter-Linking of Rivers' in compliance with the Supreme Court judgment on networking of rivers, an official statement said. The decision was taken at a cabinet meet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said a cabinet communique adding the approval would help in monitoring of the inter-linking Projects to be carried out under the government's National Perspective Plan 1980. "The status-cum-progress report of the special committee for interlinking of rivers will be submitted bi-annually for information of cabinet, which will facilitate faster and appropriate decisions in the interest of the country as expeditiously as possible," it added. The Union Cabinet meeting was