For Sunam village, a new water pipeline

With a project costing Rs 6.37 crore, Nagra village in the Sunam Assembly Constituency will get canal water after 74 years of independence. This hamlet is now the first in the state to get funding this large for a canal water project pertaining to only one village. The project is expected to be finished this year and will include a 26-kilometer pipeline that will provide canal water to 1,350 acres of agricultural land.

Aman Arora, the Minister of New and Renewable Energy Resources, made this declaration yesterday in Nagra village at the ceremony to lay the foundation stone for the biggest pipeline project.

Arora went on to say that, in terms of cost and length of RCC pipeline to a hamlet for irrigation purposes, this is the greatest project being carried out by the Department of Soil and Water Conservation.

He claimed that the Punjab government will contribute Rs 5.73 crore toward the project’s overall cost of Rs 6.37 crore, which would assist 260 people by greatly boosting their agricultural production.

Arora also emphasized the state government’s ongoing efforts to encourage farmers to use canal water to preserve declining groundwater levels. He said that farmers in every Punjabi hamlet who rely on agriculture for a living will be included in the priority effort to restore canals and water systems.

PROJECT FOR Rs 6.37 CR

According to Minister Aman Arora, the Punjab government will subsidize Rs 5.73 crore of the project’s total cost of Rs 6.37 crore. The initiative would help 260 people by greatly boosting their agricultural production.