A chapter on the river Mahanadi titled Mahanadi: A Great River in Distress written by Ranjan Panda, convenor of the Water Initiative in Odisha (WIO), has been placed in the recently-published Ramaswamy Iyer-edited book living Rivers, Dying Rivers.
The book, published by the Oxford, was unveiled by Vice-President Hamid Ansari in New Delhi on Thursday. The book also contains chapters on other rivers written by many experts.
“On July 25, 2012, I was invited to speak on Mahanadi’s plight at the India International Centre, New Delhi as part of a dialogue series ‘living Rivers, Dying Rivers’ that Prof. Iyer initiated. I was then asked by him to contribute this chapter,” said Panda.
The book would bring more debates and actions to save rivers from their decaying and dying states, he hoped.