AN ALLOCRION of Rs 48.7Q crore has been
made by the government of Haryana to
execute flood contrAschemes in various parts of the state. Minister of state
for irrigation, Attar Singh Saini, recently
told mediapersons that these schemes
would pay special attention to water logging and erosion caused by flood waters.
Saini emphasised that the government of Haryana has taken steps to
ensure the supply of canal water to the
'tail-end' villages of the state. Out of
1,462 tails, canal water has already been
supplied to 1,400 tails.
Accompanied by officials of the irrigation department, the minister under-
took an inspection of the existing number of flood control measures employed
to check the fury of the river Yamuna
and other drains (nullahs) passing
though the district of Sonepat. Last year,
the flood waters had bypassed stone
studs constructed by the irrigation
department at the Memarpur and Bega
complexes on the Yamuna as the
authorities acted in time. This year, the
stone studs are being strengthened.
Saini inspected the diversion Drain
no 8 on the river where desilting and
deweeding work was in progress to
increase its capacity to carry more flood
water during this monsoon.
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