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Rajasthan
By Our Special Correspondent
JAIPUR, SEPT. 11. Rajasthan has urged the Gujarat Government to complete the Sardar Sarovar project by building the remaining 100-km portion of a 458-km-long canal soon so that the people of Barmer and Jalore districts got the Narmada water for drinking and irrigation purposes. Making the request at the 12th meeting of the Review Committee of the Narmada Control Authority in New Delhi earlier this week, the Irrigation Minister of Rajasthan, Sanwarlal Jat, claimed that the task of constructing the 74-km-long portion in Rajasthan was in the final stage. Mr. Jat pointed out that unless the construction of the main canal was completed, Rajasthan would not get Narmada water by the targeted time of June 2006. Land, measuring 2.5-lakh hectares in Barmer and Jalore districts in south-west Rajasthan, were expected to get water for irrigation and villages, numbering 1100, would get drinking water. Mr. Jat said an expenditure of Rs. 1,300 crores was likely to be incurred on the scheme of supply of water to the region and Rs. 400 crores had been spent so far. The meeting was presided over by the Union Minister for Water Resources, Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi, and attended by the Chief Ministers of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh and the Industries and Rehabilitation Minister of Maharashtra, besides the Rajasthan Irrigation Minister. According to an official release, the Chief Secretary of Gujarat gave an assurance at the meeting that the canal's construction would begin next month. Later, during the discussion on making a by-pass tunnel at the dam, Mr. Jat suggested that the amount spent on it could be added to the cost of the main dam. Referring to an issue raised by Madhya Pradesh on bearing the expenditure on plantation, Mr. Jat said the matter should be decided in accordance with the profit ratio of each State. Since Rajasthan was to get 2 per cent water from the Sardar Sarovar project, the State was ready to bear the expenses in that proportion.
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