REVIVAL OF ARVARI RIVER What a Leader, and People can do. SARASIJ MAJUMDER REVIVAL OF ARVARI RIVER— Arvari river is a small river, may be the smallest, in the ALWAR, Indian state of Rajasthan. The 90 km. long river flows through the Alwar District of Rajasthan. It got dried, and was revived in 1990. It remained dry for 60 years. The turnaround started in 1986, when people of Bhanota- Kolyala village with the help of Tarun Bharat Sangha, managed by Rajendra Singh, constructed a JOHAD, (earthen check dam) at the source of the dried river; following this, villages that lay in its catchment area, and along the dried river bed, they also built tiny earthen dams, the largest being a 244 mt. long and 7 mt. High Concrete dam, most of them were in the Aravalli hills; eventually when the number of dams reached 375, the river started to flow again in 1990, after remaining dry for over 60 years. Villagers talk about Arvari's rebi...