KOCHI: In an effort to ensure a proper hygienic atmosphere in West Kochi, the Irrigation Department has come out with a Rs 2.5- crore project to beautify the historic and decades-old boundary canal, a historic mark dividing the erstwhile Malabar and Kochi, stretching from Thoppumpady to Fort Kochi.
AHMEDABAD: Naroda symbolised the epitome of neglect overflowing gutters and unforgettable corrosive waft from the chemical concoction flowing in Kharicut Canal. But in the coming year, not only is city administration readying a massive lake for Naroda in its heart, but also a Rs 390-crore project to cover up the 7.11 km Kharicut canal with an RCC slab to be converted to a garden.
State Minister for Housing and Public Works Advocate Abdul Mannan Khan on Monday said, Taka 1,480 crore Hatirjheel-Begunbari canal project in the city would be completed in scheduled time on priority basis for the greater public interest.
JEYPORE: Shortage of water has forced the farmers, dependent on Upper Kolab Project (UKP) for irrigating their fields, to either stop or go slow with the harvesting process.
BHUBANESWAR: The main canals of the Subarnarekha multi-purpose irrigation project on both sides of Orissa and Jharkhand nearing completion, the State Government is hopeful of receiving water for irrigation from the project by the end of this year.
Ahmedabad : Imagine if Gujarat breaks away into six to seven islands due to floods with sea water gushing inland through the Gulf of Kutch, Gulf of Khambhatt and other coastal areas.
Bathinda, January 19
Wheat fields and orchards at many places in the Malwa belt were inundated today as the canals breached due to increased water level.
Crop in 250 acres were destroyed in Mehma Sarja and Kot Fatta areas. The canal breached in Chief Minister Parkash Singh
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KOLKATA, Jan 19: Slum dwellers who have been rehabilitated under various schemes of the civic body should form co-operatives so that they can take over the responsibility of maintaining their flats, mayor Mr Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya said this today.
New Delhi: Delhi is likely to have a more relaxed summer this year, as the Government hopes to augment its water supply through the parallel-lined canal from Munak in Haryana to the Haiderpur water treatment plant.
