View of the Lava Ka Bas Johad. The Rajasthan Irrigation Department served an ultimatum to the Tarun Bharat Sangh to demolish this Johad or face legal action. Their plea was that the structure was illegal and in violation of the 1910 agreement of the princely states ofBbharatpur and Alwar over the distribution of the water of river Ruparel. Ironically the stream which is in question is only one per cent of the total catchment of the Ruparel’s 3250 square kilometres.
