Madhya Pradesh will get 18.25 Million Acre Feet (MAF) water from Narmada River, which is lifeline of Madhya Pradesh. An important programme of construction of 29 big, 135 medium and 3 thousand small dams is being implemented to utilize the water for irrigation purposes. So far, 19 medium and one thousand small dams have been constructed.
The SSP on the Narmada River, arguably the lifeline of the State of Gujarat, has always been in the limelight for one reason or another. Now, the project has got drawn into a new controversy. Farmers in the SSP command area have stolidly resisted the idea of giving up any land for the construction of the distribution system.
An instance of how official negligence deprived tribal farmers of irrigation facilities for nine years in Sundargarh district has come to light.
Even though the State Government claimed that the irrigation project in question has been completed and ready for providing irrigation from 2009-10 kharif, the CAG in its latest report has maintained that this is not factually correct.
Creation of apex water institutions and irrigation department reforms, capacity building and business process re-engineering under the UPWSR Project has already been discussed.
The AIBP was conceived in the year 1996 by the Government of India in order to provide financial assistance to States to complete various ongoing projects in the country so that envisaged irrigation potential of the project could be created and thereby extend irrigation to more areas.
TIRUCHI: The Tiruchi District Cauvery Delta Farmers Welfare Association has urged the government to take steps to clear of silt and widen all the 17 irrigation canals in the Tiruchi region so as to ensure that water for irrigation reached the tail-end areas.
The association also urged the government to take steps to build check-dams across the Cauvery River utilising the revenue generated throu
Ferozepur: In a significant development, which will improve the irrigation system, the state government has sanctioned funds to the tune of Rs 23 crore for cleanling up all canals and distributaries crisscrossing the state.
Due to choking of canals and its distributaries in absence of cleanliness, the breach in their banks has become a common occurrence in different parts of Malwa region.
Water supply to parts of Delhi and some districts of Uttar Pradesh, including Ghaziabad and Gautam Budh Nagar, is likely to be affected following the closure of Ganga canal for maintenance from October 17 till November first week. With a record rainfall being witnessed this monsoon; the Gang canal has accumulated lots of silt posing a problem.
NEW DELHI: The Upper Ganga Canal has been shut down for annual cleaning, but the Delhi Jal Board says it does not expect any shortfall of water during the closing period, thanks to ample water in the Yamuna.
The cleaning work that is carried out by the Utttar Pradesh Irrigation Department takes about three weeks from Dussehra up to Deepawali.
