Double-engine Juggernaut

The Eastern River Canal is now part of a more ambitious river-linking project between Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh

- Rohit Parihar

The newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Rajasthan may look inexperienced-given that 20 of its 24 ministers, including Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, are in office for the first time-but having a 'double-engine' government in place comes as a boon. In the first display of this Centre-state synergy, Union jal shakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat brought Rajasthan and neighbouring Madhya Pradesh across the table soon after the formation of new BJP governments in both states to move forward on the Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project (ERCP), which has been stuck in political wrangling for years.