DALTONGANJ, June 9 -- Rivers in Palamu are its water wealth. But this wealth is either shrinking or decaying. Rains fed rivers abound more than the perennial one.

Efforts are on to resuscitate the sighing rivers. Niti Ayog is to give fund to the tune of rupees 3 crore for the Batane river eco system improvement programme.

This river which has little over 2,011 metre length in Jharkhand's Palamu district is now a total dry said the nodal officer of the eco system improvement programme Satyam Kumar who is the DFO (divisional forest officer) of Medininagar forest division.

"Batane river should have been a perennial river but instead of that it is a rain fed river now gone all dry and so under the eco system improvement programme we want to ...