More R & D required to trace Saraswati River: Minister
By TIOL News Service
NEW DELHI, AUG 19, 2014: THE Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Ms Uma Bharti, has called for more research to locate Vaidik Saraswati River. Speaking to group of Scientists, Archaeologists and Research scholars, she recently said that an integrated study should be carried out for this purpose with information like historical and archaeological records, hydro-geological, sedimentological, drilling and geochronological data. She also suggested formation of a core group of Scientists, Archaeologists and Research scholars to fulfill this task.
Earlier, a group of scientists from Regional Remote Sensing Center, Department of Space, Jodhpur gave a detailed power point presentation to the Minister on the existence of “extinct” Saraswati. The course of the river and reasons for its disappearance had been debated for a long time, necessitating a fresh look through latest available technology.
The Vaidik Saraswati has been linked to the Himalayan rivers like Yamuna in the east and Sutlej in the west. Radiometric ages of river sediment suggest that the age of Vaidik Saraswati River may be as old as 28,000 years. The river was believed to have flourished during 8,000 to 5,000 BC.
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