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BHOPAL: Expressing serious concern over repeated droughts in the Bundelkhand region, the two-day convention organised by waterman Rajendra Singh in Khajuraho urged the Centre to reconsider its Ken-Betwa river linking project. "The list of all the water bodies and the area in which they are spread should be notified and ratified by the gram sabhas", said Sanjay Singh.The two-day water convention ended on Sunday. The project once completed would provide drinking water to over 13 lakh people in the arid region. "These are times when rivers are losing their perennial nature, which is also threatening their very existence and there is no need of linking the rivers. With an estimated cost of more than Rs 7,600 crore, the diversion of surplus water from Ken basin to water deficit Betwa basin is planned through a 221-km long canal to irrigate 6.35 lakh hectare area in the Bundelkhand region that is drought-prone..