As projects come, this would take the prize for being the most absurd: A desalination plant to purify seawater for the landlocked desert state of Rajasthan to solve its water woes!
A total of 61 projects were proved under the now approved under the now scrapped Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) for Rajasthan. Among them was one to set up a desalination plant in an area that comes to about 20km from the seashore.