Bhuj:

The irrigation department was working on war footing to repair the feeder canal of Tappar dam in Anjar Taluka of Kutch district even as the water supply and water filling work has somewhat been restored from this afternoon.

The sub canal which was the tail part of the channel which brings Narmda water through Sauni Yojana to this all important dam of Kutch region.

PM Narendra Modi had himself inaugurated the Lodhika pumping station on May 22 last year and formally started the Narmada water supply to the dam.

The flooring of the around half a km long feeder canal through which the water is stored in to the Tappar dam reservoir broke yesterday which not only caused wastage of large amount of water but also forced the authorities to stop water supply for start of repair work.

Though the Deputy Engineer of Irrigation department in Ajnar, Arjan Mata, who was supervising the repair work did not return the call, his counterpart in the Gujarat Water Supply and Sewerage Board in Gandhidham, P C Khiyani said that the water supply has been slowly restored from this afternoon.

He said that the repair work would take quite sometime for completion.

The water filling work in Tappar dam was started from March 9 and currently there was 397 MCFT water was in it as against its full capacity of 1725 MCFT.

‘If the dam gets a total of around 800 MCFT water then there won’t be any scarcity in Kutch district till the next monsoon,’ he said.

DeshGujarat