Gandhinagar: The Sardar Sarovar Narmada Dam achieved its full reservoir level on Tuesday, and on the same day, the state government approved ₹1,056 crore for a Narmada water network project in Banaskantha district's Diyodar, Tharad, Deesa, and Lakhani talukas. As part of this project in north Gujarat, 183 ponds and lakes in 124 villages of these talukas will be filled with Narmada water, benefiting approximately 15,000 hectares of agricultural land with irrigation, according to the governme...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government has through a note informed that Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has given administrative approval to a Rs 417 crore scheme to provide Narmada water for irrigation to 45 villages of Dhrangadhra, Muli, and Wadwan talukas in Surendranagar district. 45 villages of these three talukas were not getting the benefit of irrigation water through any branch canal under Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam. The Chief Minister has given a positive response to the representat...Read More

Banaskantha: The Karmavad lake in Vadgam will now receive water from the Narmada River. A decision has been made to release Narmada water into Karmavad Lake and Mukteshwar Dam. A fund of Rs. 500 crore has been approved for this scheme. Under this project, a 62-kilometre pipeline will be laid from Motidau village in Mehsana to Karmavad Lake. 125 villages will benefit from the release of water into the lake. The work for the project will commence after the tender process. Earlier, around 25 ...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Government of Gujarat has completed the construction of Package 8 and Package 9 of Link-3 under the SAUNI (Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation) Yojana. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate this project to the people of Saurashtra during his visit on July 27. 52,398 acres of land in 95 villages and more than 98,000 people will be benefitted The recently completed Packages 8 and 9 of Link-3, under SAUNI Yojana, will now provide water to 52,398 acres of irrigable land...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat government has taken a decision at the Chief Ministerial level to fill over 200 ponds of Dhanera and Tharad talukas of Banaskantha district with Narmada water through a lift pipeline. This will result in the rise of groundwater in these areas that have no irrigation system. More than 200 ponds in government wastage land are to be filled with Narmada water through a 61 km long main pipeline and 135 km long sub pipeline that shall carry 200 cusecs water powered by 3 pumping...Read More

Narmada: Gujarat Water Infrastructure Ltd filed a complaint against 12 farmers for water theft from the Narmada pipeline in Muli of Surendranagar. Gujarat Water Infrastructure Ltd, an undertaking of the state government, manages the work of supplying drinking water through pipelines based on the Narmada Canal. It supplies water to 1219 villages and 21 cities of Rajkot, Jamnagar, Devbhumi Dwarka, and Porbandar, from Dhanki in Lakhtar taluka. Gujarat Water Infrastructure Ltd and Dharti Infra ha...Read More

Surendranagar: The administration found and disconnected 19 illegal connections meant for water theft from the Narmada pipeline in Sayla taluka of Surendranagar. The water supply department charged a penalty of Rs. 21.44 lakh to the accused and filed a complaint against them at Sayla police station. Devayatbhai Mansurbhai Sambad, from the agency managing the repair and maintenance of the Narmada pipeline in Surendranagar, filed the complaint. A police complaint was filed against 19 accused...Read More

Ahmedabad: Residents of the Bopal area of Ahmedabad will start receiving Narmada water beginning July 24. The project that will supply the Narmada water to 1.25 lakh residents of Bopal will be inaugurated by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on that day. Narmada water from the civic body’s Jaspur treatment plant will flow into taps in Bopal. Three overhead tanks have been constructed to ensure the supply of drinking water with adequate pressure in 25,000 homes of Bopal. Shah will also inaugurat...Read More

Saurashtra: The work that was underway as part of ‘Sauni Yojana’since 2015 has been completed in Halar. As part of this project, 23 dams of Saurashtra have now been inter-linked at a cost of Rs 2,200 crore and testing of the linking pipeline has also been successfully completed recently. In the coming days, water for irrigation and drinking purpose will now be available in Halar in the entire stretch of villages between Dhrol and Kalyanpur talukas. The work on laying 143 kilometer long pi...Read More