Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal sought personal intervention of his Haryana counterpart Bhupinder Singh Hooda to immediately issue instructions to the authorities concerned to stop the alleged protection works on outer slope of left bank of Hansi branch of the Butana Branch Multipurpose Link Channel (MPLC).
Badal in a Demi Official letter to Hooda on May 18 mentioned the canal had bee
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Amid reports of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal objecting to Haryana about a concrete wall being built by it along the Hansi-Butana canal, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said all such conjecture was “baseless”, and he had not received any such letter.
Inhabitants of the several villages, located near the Hansi-Butana canal on the Punjab-Haryana border, will file a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Punjab and Haryana High Court against the construction of the Hansi-Butana canal and the 3.75-km concrete wall being built by Haryana along its embankments.
Baltej Singh, sarpanch, Sassi Gujaran village, stated that it has been decided by a m
Sekhon says 20,700 acres of farmland will be submerged in Punjab; Chatha calls it a poll gimmick
Dharmheri (Patiala), June 29
Punjab Irrigation Minister Janmeja Singh Sekhon has said that in case of torrential rain, a threat of flood in Patiala district looms large.
After visiting the site at the Punjab-Haryana border where the 3.75-km concrete wall is being built by Haryana here today, Sekho
A major work has been taken up in the state in view of utility and importance of canals in the process to extend irrigation potential. The project envisaged in this connection will make available irrigation facility in a better way to five lakh 64 thousand 923 hectare area.
For drought hit Jharkhand, there seems to be some respite in sight.
While the state is likely to get good rainfall this year, over half a dozen water reservoir projects too are set to become functional in the coming weeks.
To begin with, the much-awaited Ajay barrage will be inaugurated on July 15.
Under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MGNREGS), around 1.25 crore mandays employment has been created for over 52 lakh beneficiaries in 54 thousand villages in all districts of Madhya Pradesh. Not only were the jobs provided to the maximum beneficiaries but many important infrastructural development works have also been executed under the scheme.
Agriculture currently produces only 30% of total income in the Telangana region, but it remains the basis for survival of nearly 78% of the population. During the 53-year period, 1956-2009, Telangana lost 2.92 lakh hectares of tank irrigation. Meanwhile, despite the high cost of irrigation – both in capital and operating costs – over the same period the area irrigated by tube wells has grown up. The latter is entirely dependent on the recharge of groundwater and the availability and cost of power.
Chandigarh The irrigation department in Punjab has announced the rotational programme for irrigation for the current khriff season through canal water from June 23-30.
The channels of Sirhind Canal System would run on the priority basis from Abohar Branch, Patiala feeder, Sidhwan Branch, Bathinda Branch and Bist Doab Canal respectively.
Disclosing this here today, a spokesman of the irrigati
