Narmada Valley Projects Creates 89640 Hectare Irrigation Potential<\/p>\n
Maan Project Ready To Irrigate 15000 Hectare
\nBhopal: Tuesday, September 5, 2006: Updated 20:54 IST
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\nWith the completion of one kilometer long aquaduct on right bank canal, the ambitious irrigation project of tribal dominated Dhar district is ready to irrigate 15000 Hectare of agriculture land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This was informed by the Vice Chairman of Narmada Valley Development Authority, Shri Uday Kumar Verma here in a high level meeting called to review progress of the Narmada Valley projects. Shri Verma said that Mann Project would irrigate about 19 thousand hectare annually. The Member (Engg.) Shri Virendra Kumar Pareekh informed that by the year 2010 the irrigation from Narmada Valley projects is estimated as much as 5.76 lack hectare.<\/p>\n
Shri. Verma said that upto March 2006 the ongoing NVDA projects have created irrigation potential of 89640 hectares and all efforts would be done to achieve the yearly targets. He informed that NVDA. is concentrating on catchments area treatment, soil conservation practices and educating farmers in canal irrigation and cropping patterns. Based on geographical, and climatic conditions of the Project area separate plans would be made for each project and would be implemented involving local farmers. Vice Chairman informed that besides power and irrigation benefits, other issues like fisheries, water transport, Eco-tourism etc are being taken care of to exploit every possibilities of public welfare. Shri. Uday Kumar Verma informed that NVDA is working on a plan to extend irrigation facilities to the farmers of those 121 villages which lies in the periphery of Indira Sagar Reservoir. A special power line would be laid in these villages so the farmers could take the water to their fields using pumps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-env-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}