The Hindu : Projects worth Rs. 48 crore approved

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Sunday, Mar 21, 2004

Karnataka

Karnataka

Projects worth Rs. 48 crore approved

By T.V. Sivanandan

GULBARGA, MARCH 20. The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has approved 95 minor irrigation works including a number of barrages and new tanks, and improvement and strengthening of tanks under the Rural Infrastructure Development Project (RIDF) Ninth Series in the State.

Official sources told The Hindu here today that NABARD had cleared the proposals sent by the Government for a total cost of Rs. 48.05 crore to irrigate an additional 12,068 hectares of land. He said the works approved included 16 percolation tanks, 15 tank modernisation projects, 14 vented dams, 10 lift irrigation schemes, 11 barrages, three bridge and barrages, three minor irrigation tanks, one infiltration well, and one salt water exclusion dam.

A major beneficiary in the latest sanction under "RIDF 9" is Gulbarga district, where 28 projects at a total cost of Rs. 17.19 crore have been approved. The Meenhabal bridge and barrage across the Kagina, which will be built at a cost of Rs. 5.48 crore, will help provide irrigation to 1,037 hectares of land, meet the drinking water requirement in many villages, and improve the groundwater level in the surrounding areas.

The next major beneficiary is Uttara Kannada district, for which 12 projects including six lift irrigation schemes, three barrages, tank modernisation, and a vented dam have been approved. The projects will cost Rs 4.59 crore. Koppal has been sanctioned nine projects — six percolation tanks, two pickup canals, and a minor irrigation tank — which will cost Rs. 2.61 crore. Raichur district has been sanctioned five projects, and they will be implemented at a cost of Rs. 3.7 crore.

Sources said Shimoga District had been sanctioned six projects, Udupi nine projects, Bagalkot four projects, Chitradurga three projects, Dakshina Kannada six projects, Bijapur district five projects, two projects each for Belgaum, Tumkur, and Bidar, and one project in Bellary. All the projects are scheduled to be completed by March 2005. Work on some of the projects has begun.

A sum of Rs. 87.13 lakh has been spent on these projects which were proposed for NABARD assistance under RIDF Ninth Series. The contribution of NABARD for these projects will be Rs. 44.96 crore. The State's share is Rs. 2.22 crore. The average cost to provide irrigation to one hectare of land varies between projects.

The projects which have been approved in Gulbarga district include a flood protection wall at Yankanchi village, and Naribol and Mahur, Kotnoor, Nelogi villages on the Bheema in Jewargi taluk, improvements to the Handarki Tank at Sedam, an infiltration well near Jaigram village in Yadgir, four barrages across the Hattikuni stream, a barrage across the Amarja river near Koginoor in Afsalpur, a lift irrigation scheme at Benchigaddi at Surpur, a barrage and bridge at Gundugurthi village on the Gundugurthi stream in Chitapur, a barrage across the Mudbal stream in Jewargi taluk, a feeder channel to Bada Talab near Mattanalli in Yadgir, improvements to the Oora Tank at Itkal in Sedam and the Muskhan tank at Surpur, and an anicut near Motenalli village in Yadgir.

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