Farmers to get canal water for paddy from June 11
Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann urges farmers to utilize surface water during paddy season to conserve groundwater. Canal water to be supplied uninterruptedly from June 11 in 11 districts. Dedicated control room set up for water supply inquiries. Flood prevention measures also underway, including strengthening embankments and notifying flood plains. Contact +91 96461 51466 for water supply information.
Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday exhorted farmers in the state to make maximum use of surface water during the ensuing paddy season to save groundwater. While chairing a meeting of the water resources department, Mann said that the state govt is fully geared to supply canal water from the forthcoming paddy season. He said that from June 11, the canal water would be supplied to farmers “uninterruptedly” as work of de-silting the canals have already been accomplished. He said that canal water will be supplied in districts of 11 and in Moga, Sangrur, Malerkotla, Patiala, Fatehgarh
Sahib, Mohali, Ropar, Ludhiana, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Nawanshahr, Tarn Taran, Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Pathankot from June 15.
“Punjab is on the threshold of setting a new record for supplying canal water for the irrigational needs adding that for the first time the state government has set up a dedicated control room for enquiries regarding supply of canal water. If anyone desires to get any information regarding the supply of canal water that person can call on +91 96461 51466. I hope that the farmers will duly utilise the canal water for irrigating the paddy fields and play a major role in saving the ground water,” he said.
Mann said that in order to avert floods in the state, the Punjab govt had taken initiatives, including designing the discharge of choes and rivers as per 100 years flood discharge and accordingly notifying the flood plains of rivers and drains/choes under The Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, strengthening of main embankments of rivers and restriction of works on advance bundh.
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