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The building service extension of Kachhi Canal is set up to be completed by August 2022 to irrigate one more 30,000 acres of virgin land in Balochistan’s Dera Bugti area.
This was stated by Pakistan Water as well as Power Advancement Authority (WAPDA) Chairman Lt Gen (retd) Muzammil Hussain during his check out to the job area on Sunday.
General Manager (main) Water Ata Ullah Memon, Job Director Kachhi Canal Syed Ali Akhtar Shah, reps of the professionals and also various other consultants were also present during the check out.
Reviewing construction activities on the website, the WAPDA Chairman shared contentment over the rate of work on the task despite the dominating Covid-19 pandemic that has actually negatively impacted the globe for more than one as well as a half year.
He directed the project authorities to purely follow the timelines to ensure that the expansion work could be completed on time.
Lt Gen (retd) Hussain added that WAPDA is committed to adding towards an environment-friendly as well as flourishing Pakistan, Balochistan specifically, by completing its tasks to make water available for farming.
“Kachhi Canal is one of those jobs,” he claimed.
Earlier, the project administration informed the chairman about the development on the expansion of Kachhi Canal.
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The extension of Kachhi Canal is being executed with 3 various agreements with a cumulative cost of Rs19.5 billion.
Under the project, the existing primary canal will be additional expanded by one more 40kms. On top of that, a 32km lengthy water circulation system will certainly likewise be constructed in the command area to water an additional 30,000 acres of land in Dera Bugti area.
WAPDA has already constructed a 363km major canal and 81km long allied water circulation system to water 72,000 acres of land.
The canal having a discharge capability of 6000 cusecs, that takes off from Taunsa Barrage in Muzaffargarh area of Punjab, gets in Balochistan’s Dera Bugti district.
Kachhi Canal is a vital task to ease poverty and eliminate extremism in remote and also backward locations of Balochistan by developing irrigated agriculture and an agro-based economic situation in the province.
Experts have called the land being grown in Sui as well as adjacent areas of Dera Bugti area with Kacchi Canal as a good omen for Balochistan as it has brought in an amazing modification in the income of the citizens.
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