Thanks to the laudable initiative of the Chief Minister, the nearly three year old stalemate over Ravi canal project is finally over. Rs 275.15 crore project of construction of Balance Portion/Extension of main Ravi canal upstream Ravi river from Basantpur right up to the inflow of Reservoir of Ranjit Sagar Dam was caught in bureaucratic bottleneck. The project will irrigate 1.33 lakh acres of land in three districts of Jammu province for which 82 kilometre canal and 500 kilometre tributaries were constructed 30 years ago. It has to be noted that the ministerial tussle and intransigency caused a loss of around Rs 9000 crore owing to non-implementation of agreement with Punjab for drawing water for irrigation and power share from Ranjit Sagar Dam during past 30 years. It was a hurdle in bringing prosperity to a large chunk of population in hundreds of villages in three districts of Jammu. We hope that now with the clearance of the project, irrigation of the targeted lands will start without loss of time.
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